The Wrong Time to be a diabetic...

[SueEllen]

Just wondered if something new had happened, to make you drag up an event that happened 12 years ago.

But at least reading this thread explains the box of kit-kats left in our spare room last time my sister and her type-1-diabetes husband stayed over.

What did you think they were doing with them?

[shaunbhoy]

What did you think they were doing with them?

Sugar-coating things??

[zeitghost]

Sugar-coating things??

Surely that requires Mars bars.

[shaunbhoy]

Surely that requires Mars bars.

Or a careless Wispa?

[vetran]

What did you think they were doing with them?

you get 4 fingers in a kit kat ?

[PurpleGorilla]

I suspect the amount of people with the genentic form is low, in the large majority of cases type 2 will be caused by lifestyle hence the massive increase in diagnosis due to our ever increasing obese population.

It's. Chicken and the egg.

High blood sugar makes the body produce insulin.

Insulin decreases blood sugar by storing the glucose as FAT.

And the worst part, ALL carbs turn to glucose when digested.

CARBS make you fat.

[NigelJK]

You should have chosen your parents better...

You're right for so many reasons.

And the worst part, ALL carbs turn to glucose when digested.

CARBS make you fat.

Fat when broken down by the body produces Carbs and fatty acids, but still the safest way of consuming carbs.

Have a read of the original Dr Atkins book. It makes for interesting reading as to why the US (at that time, in the 60's) was heading for an obesity pandemic. NB he was a cardiac surgeon who was loosing $100,000's because he was not allowed by American law to operate on obese patients. Having found a seemingly foolproof Diet he then spent the rest of his days fighting an increasingly powerful 'food' lobby and their smears.

[PurpleGorilla]

The Wrong Time to be a diabetic...

You're right for so many reasons.



Fat when broken down by the body produces Carbs and fatty acids, but still the safest way of consuming carbs.

Have a read of the original Dr Atkins book. It makes for interesting reading as to why the US (at that time, in the 60's) was heading for an obesity pandemic. NB he was a cardiac surgeon who was loosing $100,000's because he was not allowed by American law to operate on obese patients. Having found a seemingly foolproof Diet he then spent the rest of his days fighting an increasingly powerful 'food' lobby and their smears.

Fat when broken down produces glucose (gluconogenisis).

All carbs turn to glucose.

Low carb is the key to preventing obesity. Atkins was a pioneer!

https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb

[NigelJK]

Oddly Atkins researched this in the 60's and the only study of human nutrition that he found was done by HMG on the outbreak of WW2. They knew we'd need to ration food to make it through the oncoming conflict. The study involved feeding mice exclusively on one food source + water. One set got Carbs, one fat and one fibre. The only ones to survive any length of time were the one fed fat. So before the 'advice' of a low fat diet was given to the Nation after the war they knew it was bad advice.

BTW my missus got me into Atkins and she calls it the 'Man diet' as most men don't realise it's a 'Diet' in the lose weight sense, as you get to eat plenty of meat.

[Support Monkey]

Unfortunately the experts disagree with you as per the links. Your prejudice seems odd considering your son's condition.

It is also highly likely that historical low diagnosis levels were caused by the same factors that masked heart disease & cancer 50 years ago.

My son is type 1, no known cause and no known cure, he is insulin dependant for life and needs to carefully control what he eats and he doesn't drink because he knows it will cause him problems, he has no choice.

I am only prejudiced against type 2 because whilst there is always the exception the large majority of type 2 (95% in America) is caused by lifestyle choice and what you find is many people who contract it look for any excuse to show it was not caused by their choice to shove pies and crisps down their necks and sitting on their a*rse