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85 years as Type 1.

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Wow, that makes my 34 years seem like no time at all. I also like the comment by the Dr. Good to know that dogged determination goes a long way.
 
Good on Bob and hope he lives for many years to come! :)

His diet is interesting:

"To keep your diabetes under control you only eat the food you need to before you have activities to perform," Krause said. "I eat to keep me alive instead of eating all the time, or for pleasure."

He says he's not as active as he once was, so he doesn't need a lot of fuel — or variation in diet. For breakfast every day, he eats a bowl of nuts and five pitted prunes. He usually skips lunch and eats a salad with some lean meat for dinner
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Not eating for pleasure and eating the same food day after day.... not something I would want to do but it's obviously done the business for Bob.

Nigel
 
wow - very poignant that his brother died because he had been born that little bit earlier and insulin wasn't ready for him.
 
I dare say his quite natural and relatively low carb diet is partly instrumental and he says he's testing 12 times a day as well so his blood sugar control must be pretty much spot on most of the time.

Good on you Bob :)
 
Wonder what our medical folks would say about the testing 8 times a day over here!!
I thought there is no point in testing as it doesn't help us, only worries us???
Maybe they don't want us to cope for 85 years :?
Ponderingly
Angie
 
I guess Bob's diet was not something Bob ever wanted to do either but his mother knew no other way of keeping her son alive and he grew used to his lifestyle of food. He had no experience of another way of eating as many of us have had, sometimes for many, many decades.

I recently met a young woman whose mother had Candida overgrowth as a result of a life threatening accident when she was in her twenties, treated with massive amounts of antibiotics. She passed on the condition to her two children and they had been raised on a very low carb diet for some 28 years and said that she does not miss or crave what she has never had.
Alison
 
clearviews said:
I guess Bob's diet was not something Bob ever wanted to do either but his mother knew no other way of keeping her son alive and he grew used to his lifestyle of food. He had no experience of another way of eating as many of us have had, sometimes for many, many decades.
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I think your right Alison..........what you've never had you never miss!


That said food is one of life's pleasures and should be varied. In recent years developments in insulin leading to MDI, pump technology, and excellent carb counting courses in the UK such as DAFNE (dose adjustment for normal eating) have revolutionised type 1 diabetes and thankfully we don't have to resort to diets such as Bob's anymore, however for those with insulin resistance a low-carb diet would be a option but it doesn't have to be as strict and mundane as our Bob's.

Nigel
 
Fascinating. It helps to be a mechanical engineer.
 
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