In Reply to: Re: You misunderstand me posted by Paper Boy on August 20, 2007 at 13:29:24:
Just wanted to say that the article in your post was interesting to me. I am diabetic and recent studies have shown that a person who is diabetic is not diabetic due to weight but that genetics are the determining factors. Weight loss, if a person is significantly overweight, can put SOME type 2 diabetes into remission, but the real killers with regard to diabetes are the low "good" cholesterol, high "bad" cholesterol, high triglycerides (which aren't entirely associated with diet-but more a side effect of being diabetic ) cause heart attacks and stroke leading to death.
Endocrinologists didn't discover this. Researchers in Cardiology found it out. So now the focus for diabetics isn't as much on the blood sugar levels but on a combination of medicines (statins, anti-hypertensives and medicines to lower blood sugar) to prevent the common causes of death for diabetics.
Type 1 Diabetics tend to be thin- many of them. Type 2- it varies, but a person does not have to be fat to be type 2 Diabetic, it is genetically inherited. That is what happened to me. My mother had it (adult onset) and so did my great uncle. I suppose if I had my choice of genes, I'd take the diabetes over my father's and his family's history of Cancer of the digestive system. Hopefully I won't get the worst of both worlds, but I can say that now that I just turned 55 I don't care. I feel like I have lived too long anyway.
No doubt diet influences diabetes because now kids are getting diabetic in growning numbers and that is linked to quality of diet, or could it be that only in recent times kids have been tested for diabetes? After all, kids that grew up in my era of childhood ate the worst foods that were ever on the market..lol. That's when the wonderful world of dyes and junk food, TV Dinners, hot dogs, lead paint, asbestos, severe sunburns on a regular basis and much much more- was the norm.
I had a sudden leap in my Diabetes and my doc wants to start me on injectible insulin. I am not ready so I have kept taking meds that are making me sorta sick. So I think I will go to the needle.
All I can say is that I am glad for research and when one approach doesn't work for me, I am interested in others. Thanks for posting your article in relation to the "I'm sick so I must be sinning" theology.