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'Don't skip breakfast.'

LOL.
I followed the link and checked the comment section (not usually a place where common sense reigns in the Mail)- this time, even the Daily mail comment section is united in calling out the article for being utter nonsense
 
A lovely picture of someone injecting insulin ( apparently). Roughly speaking about 14% of Type 2 diabetics need insulin injections. I guess it has more impact/ scaremongering than a picture of someone having a poo ( mods will edit s*** ) after taking metformin.:)
 
Utter nonsense of course but not withstanding that I do eat a light breakfast most days as I take a lot of meds and prefer not to take them on an empty stomach and need to take some of them them early in the day like prednisolone take it later in the day and it has a worse effect on my BG.
 
therower said:
A lovely picture of someone injecting insulin ( apparently). Roughly speaking about 14% of Type 2 diabetics need insulin injections. I guess it has more impact/ scaremongering than a picture of someone having a poo ( mods will edit s*** ) after taking metformin.:)
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That's unlikely to be a picture of someone injecting insulin. The needle is far too long and most insulin is injected with a pen not a syringe. It is further proof the author of the article has no idea about diabetes..
 
helensaramay said:
That's unlikely to be a picture of someone injecting insulin. The needle is far too long and most insulin is injected with a pen not a syringe. It is further proof the author of the article has no idea about diabetes..
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Hence the apparently :):):):):).
Stereotypical reporting of diabetes.......again.
 
I haven't read the article but would like to put this in the pot. I only ever eat a breakfast on a Sunday as a little treat which is always a large crumpet spread with Kerrygold butter, marmite, & cheese. Apart from this my normal routine is not to eat until 13.00hrs which is 2 chicken thighs covered in either a chilli marinade or herb/spices. I then don't eat until around 17.30hrs which will be vegetables & protein. I eat all my meals within a 6 hour window. I also drink at least 2 litres of water a day. I was diagnosed type 2 in 2017 & at my last check up I was 0.1 away from being in remission. I don't need meds anymore but Dr told me that 1 Metformin a day is actually good. I will add though that I've not been good over Christmas but I'll soon sort it out.
 
"Experts say this is because people who skip breakfast are more likely to snack"

So it's not skipping breakfast, it's snacking between meals.
 
therower said:
Roughly speaking about 14% of Type 2 diabetics need insulin injections.
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I recently attended a presentation given by an endocrinologist who said that 1 in 3 type II diabetics take insulin, a figure I doubted despite my father and a cousin both being insulin dependent type IIs.

"The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists recommends starting a person with type 2 diabetes on insulin if their A1C is above 9 percent and they have symptoms," So who knows where my endo got his numbers from. He also said that most type IIs will end up on insulin "within 10 - 20 years". In parenthesis because it's a stupid thing to say, it just means within 20 years. That ties up with things the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologist say as well as articles in the Lancet.

My question is "where do we get accurate figures from"? What The Fail has written is just another example of "Fake News". My starting point is disbelief and then I have to look around to find the truth. The problem I'm having is spending far too much time trying to find out what the truth is.
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
I came to a remarkable conclusion, the headline should be "People who have sex before breakfast have increased chance of getting diabetes".
It's very simple, if you have sex before breakfast, it's quite likely you won't have time for breakfast, and then more likely to snack later in the day.
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I thought the extra exercise made you hungry so you are more likely to need breakfast :)
 
helensaramay said:
That's unlikely to be a picture of someone injecting insulin. The needle is far too long and most insulin is injected with a pen not a syringe. It is further proof the author of the article has no idea about diabetes..
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Maybe she's aiming to have a glittery belly button - it looked very much to me at first sight like the needle-less syringe I use when crafting to dispense glue gel and other gloopy stuff that needs to be finely placed...

But, regardless, I'm amazed that it's taken breakfastless me so long to end up with diabetes as I rarely ate any from early teens to well after retirement...

Robbity
 
Since I always wake up hungry I can't go without breakfast. Just leave the packaged cereals on the shelf for the rest of the family while they salivate to the smell of my sausages, bacon, eggs and tomato.
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
I came to a remarkable conclusion, the headline should be "People who have sex before breakfast have increased chance of getting diabetes".
It's very simple, if you have sex before breakfast, it's quite likely you won't have time for breakfast, and then more likely to snack later in the day.
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The original source of this article is The Journal of Nutrition (Oxford Academic):
https://academic.oup.com/jn/advance...093/jn/nxy194/5167902?redirectedFrom=fulltext

This is a typical example of data-mining and is grist to the mill for your average researcher who is upping their publication output for (e.g.) the REF (Research Excellence Framework).

However, causative inferences do not a summer make and therefore @DavidGrahamJones is equally correct in surmising that sex underlies the increased risk of T2D. I, however, concluded that it was due to missing the morning cuppa which contains essential bioflavonoids...

There, I can spout b******* as well.
 
I’m not a fan of name calling but that was really stupid.

It was illogical and appeared as if it was hastily written.
 
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