Diabetes in the News

[Art Of Flowers]

Superfit Gran develops type 2 diabetes due to love of fresh orange juice and almost needed a foot amputation. It turns out the orange juice has as much sugar as fizzy drinks and drinking it as one of your "5 a day" can lead to excessive sugar consumption.
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...lops-diabetes-through-love-fresh-orange-juice
This is in sharp contrast with the view of Sir Muir Gray who thinks Type 2 Diabetes should be called "Walking Deficiency Syndrome" as he thinks it is due to lack of exercise. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4362126/Type-2-diabetes-not-real-illness-says-doctor.html

A couple of articles regarding diet and the prevention of diabetes ...
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/mar/27/high-fibre-diet-could-prevent-type-1-diabetes
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4369148/Eat-legumes-reduce-risk-type-2-diabetes-35.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4356202/Drink-tea-prevent-type-2-DIABETES.html

Which reminds me to make some vegetable soup today with some kidney beans.

Lucozade is reducing the amount of glucose by 50%, so if you use it to treat a hypo, beware ...
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3227496/lucozade-is-changing-its-formula-diabetes-take-care/

Diabetes sufferers are twice as likely to be depressed according to this article
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...ype-2-depression-symptoms-double-risk-anxiety

Possible new drug to treat diabetes ...
https://www.newscientist.com/articl...ug-could-be-the-first-to-reverse-the-disease/

Diabetes linked to Alzheimers ...
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style...in-resistance-link-alzheimer-disease-dementia

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

Too much information . . . . . and it's Sunday.

 

[Rosiegough_]

I drank gallons of pure fruit juice and Coke every day until 3weeks ago

 

[Robkww]

Sir Muir Gray is past his sell by date - a fading generation, different ideas and needs to now rest on his gong.

 

[Art Of Flowers]

Before I was diagnosed I was eating what I thought was a "healthy" diet which included orange juice and Jordan Country Crisp breakfast cereal, sandwiches for lunch and lots of rice, pasta and potatoes in my evening meals. I now realise just how much carbs I was eating which meant that I could never lose weight and this contributed to me getting type 2 diabetes.

There are four million people with type 2 diabetes in the UK, of which 90% are type 2. It is now the disease with the biggest cost to the NHS, around £10 billion a year. You have to wonder that millions of people are sleepwalking into getting type 2 diabetes by being completely unaware how much carbs they are eating and how this is damaging their health. The super fit gran is just one of these casualties.

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

You have to wonder that millions of people are sleepwalking into getting type 2 diabetes by being completely unaware how much carbs they are eating and how this is damaging their health.

I hope you took my previous comment in the light hearted way in which is was intended. I'm struggling to read anything complicated these days.

I had followed a low fat diet since 1989, although I rarely ate cake, chocolate, chips, etc etc before that date. How can I be so precise? It's when I moved in with the lady who is now my wife and she said that I wasn't going to continue with the bachelor diet I was use to. My new healthy dietary regime helped me gain 3 stone in 3 months, how did that happen? No idea at all. That healthy regime was toast at breakfast, bread at lunch and pasta or rice or potato at dinner.

I feel sure that eating too many carbs is behind my problems, yet it was exactly what was being recommended. There might be people who can cope with that much carb, just that I'm not one of them.

When I think back to my mum dieting in the 60s, what did she do? Cut out bread and potatoes (pasta and rice not so common in our house in the 60s), I realise that's an observation with no empirical evidence, but obesity wasn't such a problem in the 60s.

If the health authorities continue with the demonisation of fat and exalting of carbs, we better be ready for a much bigger problem in the future.

 

[Bluetit1802]

When I think back to my mum dieting in the 60s, what did she do? Cut out bread and potatoes (pasta and rice not so common in our house in the 60s), I realise that's an observation with no empirical evidence, but obesity wasn't such a problem in the 60s.

Bread and spuds were always the things to go when dieting before the low fat rubbish hit the shelves. Pastry as well. Once we were all brainwashed about low fat we thought it was OK to go back to the bread and spuds. Pasta was never seen in those days, and rice was all pudding rice, never savoury.

 

[NoCrbs4Me]

Here's a good one: apparently "climate change" causes type 2 diabetes:

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/climate-change-100000-americans-diabetes-every-year/

 

[JohnEGreen]

Here's a good one: apparently "climate change" causes type 2 diabetes:

Not an unreasonable hypothesis.

 

[NoCrbs4Me]

Not an unreasonable hypothesis.

I guess we'll agree to disagree.

 

[serenity648]

Breathing causes Diabetes.........................

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

pudding rice,

That's brought back some memories.

 

[Bluetit1802]

That's brought back some memories.

Nothing quite as good as a home made rice pudding. Had one almost every week of my life until I was diagnosed. Soooooo good.

 

[DavidGrahamJones]

Atmospheric pressure (or lack of it) causes diabetes.

I've been having some Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy where I breath pure oxygen in a chamber at a pressure of 2 atmospheres. You start with 15 one hour sessions over 3 weeks then "top up" with one or more one hour sessions a week. The initial 5 sessions are at 1.2 atmospheres, then 5 at 1.5 atmospheres then all sessions can be done at 2 atmospheres. It's done like that to make sure you can tolerate the pressure. It's surprising how just a minor cold can affect your ears so much.

Anyway, I've been using my FreeStyle Libre during my sessions and I can see a drop in BG matching exactly the time in the compression chamber once it's at pressure (can take 15 minutes to compress then another 15 minutes to decompress). I also noticed that the drop is greater when the pressure is higher.

There is some Japanese research to back this up, just a shame it's only temporary. Seems the pressure affects insulin resistance, rather than breathing oxygen.