Does over eating give you Type 2 diabetes or does diabetes make you over eat

Type 2 they say it is due to being excessively overweight no necessarily so.. It takes time to cut back on your food intake mind over matter believe me it is possible and of course watch your sugar intake and you will feel fantastic.

 

It has decreased a lot and I hardly ever feel like overeating now. I believe carbs were causing the urge to overeat. It was a vicious cycle that I broke by reducing carbs. I need the increased fats to make me feel satisfied and to give me energy. But eating fats with moderate to high carbs causes weight gain. So I can only eat increased fats because I am low carbing.

The other factor that was driving my urge to overeat was that the excess body fat was driving insulin resistance. Now that I have much less body fat, I have less insulin resistance and cravings. It could be argued that with an HbA1c I don't have insulin resistance anymore I guess.

 

Check out: http://nusi.org They're a 'not for profit' organisation. Their mission statement: The mission of Nutrition Science Initiative is to reduce the individual, social, and economic costs of obesity, diabetes, and their related diseases by improving the quality of science in nutrition and obesity research.

 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfz4720ooL3evd0aNphpFFw

That is the youtube channel of some indian diabetes association. There are lots of interesting presantantions there.

Here is one of the most interesting.

It is by a certain Doctor C.S. Yajnik. He is the person to the right on this famous picture. http://www.jomrjournal.org/articles/2014/1/1/images/JObesMetabRes_2014_1_1_55_123934_u4.jpg

You see that they have the same bmi, but the indian professor has over twice as much bodyfat! The presantantion is about individual obesity. He shows all the reasons why people can get diabetes even though they are very thin, bmi and bodyfat is not very related I am afraid, but hugely affected by genetics, epigenetics and lifestyle.

Here is also some research by Doctor Roy Taylor from Newcastle university, he shows how he cures diabetes by applying the same principles of personal fat threshold.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/magres/research/diabetes/reversal.htm

I got lots of more research if you are interested, but I am going to put up my links when I have some more time.

 

I had already started losing weight when diagnosed. I thought my plantar fasciitis was a gym injury, doc thought diabetes and he was right.

When I met DSN for first time, literally the first thing that came out of her mouth was: " You don't look fat enough to have diabetes ". I didn't take it as the compliment she meant it as ! Husband muttered that she was a cheeky mare.

I count myself lucky that I have never had the hunger. Husband and I have always had two rules about eating.

1. Don't eat dinner on a tray in front of TV, actually sit at a table and talk.
2. Don't keep snacks (chocolate, crisps, sweets etc) in the house, if you want them, you have to make the effort and go buy them.

We ate healthily, I know everyone says that, but we had an allotment and grew lots of our own veg without chemicals and using natural spring water (very handy spring). We did eat a lot of soya mince (low carb) for about three years, rather than value burger rubbish because we were skint and more bread, potatoes and pasta than we would have done otherwise.

I blame my diabetes on the completely flawed low fat mantra that I was subjected to from age of ten.

 

T2DM can be a partly genetic thing. Not in my family but husband's mother and daughter are both T2DM and his mother and one of his sisters are both lactose-intolerant too.Husband seems to be the only gluten-intolerant one in his family though.

I mention the intolerance because a fundraising letter from The Soil Association mentions that animal experiments have shown that use of glyphosate (Roundup) at levels permissible in food, causes endocrine system disruption and digestive issues.

Glyphosate is now routinely used to kill and dry out wheat before harvest and can also be used on rice, sweet potatoes, beans, tame oats, flax ,non-GM rape, non-GM soy, lentils, peas, feed barley and sugar cane.

If you Google Roundup harvest staging, you will find a PDF for farmers. Sometimes the crop will be sprayed as little as three days before harvest.

Roundup has been identified by the research arm of the World Health Organisation as a probable human carcinogen. A group of farm workers who have developed cancer after years of using Roundup are now suing Monsanto.

I know that many people will say that organic food is too expensive, but since 2012 I have seen organic prices in supermarkets come down. The more I read about non-organic farming methods and food, the more relieved I am to be avoiding them. I'm not saying that there are no pesticides in organic food at all, but there should be a lot less and glyphosate (Roundup) isn't allowed at all.