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T1 diabetes is a strange disease, my brother has it and he was not remotely over-weight although in college and after, his diet was terrible(he also was extreme
by subsubzero 6y ago
T1 diabetes is a strange disease, my brother has it and he was not remotely over-weight although in college and after, his diet was terrible(he also was extremely vitamin D deficient from avoiding the sun). He developed it in his late 20's. Another friend has it and he got it as a kid, he said it came on after a very bad bout of pneumonia he had beforehand, and his Dr's think that is what may have triggered it but who can say. Perhaps either a extremely hard illness or a vitamin deficiency can bring it on, covid-19 seems to fit the bill with accounts of people with low vitamin D levels getting more severe cases, and the fact that it attacks the entire body looking for weaknesses.
- Trasmatta 6y ago> he was not remotely over-weight That's not surprising at all, since there's no correlation between weight and T1D.
- erichocean 6y agoThe correlation is actually negative: if you don't produce insulin, you'll find it extremely hard to put on weight. Children with Type 1 diabetes, before receiving insulin, look like they are starving to death.
- drocer88 6y agoFrom https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/39/5/629/5060447 https://academic.oup.com/edrv/article/39/5/629/5060447 "Obesity, once rare in type 1 diabetes (T1D), is now an increasingly frequent problem (3–5). Accumulating evidence on the prevalence and consequences of obesity in T1D shows very clearly that this comorbidity is both underappreciated and poorly understood." .... " The considerable obesity burden in youth with T1D was confirmed, also in the T1DX, where the prevalence of obesity (BMI ≥95th percentile) was 13.5% in adolescents (mean age 15.4 years), with higher prevalences in those of black/African American descent (17.9%) and Hispanic/Latino descent (15.9%) between the years of 2010 and 2012."
- Trasmatta 6y agoThis is talking about the prevalence of obesity in existing T1D's, not as a precursor or cause of T1D.
- milesvp 6y agoMy suspicion from diabetic research I did both prior and during my wife’s gestational diabetes, is that the increase in obesity that may have occurred in the last 60 years is due to bad dieting advice for T1 diabetics. The fundamental health issue with diabetes is managing blood glucose levels. This is best done with low carb meals with slow carbs along with small amounts of periodic insulin. But for some reason common advice for diabetics is to eat large amounts of fast carbs and then take large doses of insulin. This combination is just begging for added weight (and increased risk of insulin sensitivity to boot).
- Trasmatta 6y ago> But for some reason common advice for diabetics is to eat large amounts of fast carbs and then take large doses of insulin That's odd, I've been diabetic for about 10 years now and have never heard this advice from any doctor or dietician that I've seen.
- beagle3 6y agoAre you in the US? I've heard from several americans that this was the recommended ADA advice (luckily changed at some point in the last 5 years or so). However, outside the US it seems that the recommendation has always beem to minimize carbs.