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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1649169" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Personally, I think this is a nonsense question and a dangerous question on a type 1 forum. </p><p></p><p>Type 1 diabetics need insulin to keep them alive. Diabulimia (insulin omission to avoid weight gain) is a recognised psychiatric condition causing significant diabetic complications and death many type 1s who believe the insulin makes you fat nonsense. </p><p></p><p>Insulin doesn't make you fat. It keeps you alive. What you eat makes you fat. Insulin is the hormone that allows fat to be stored in the body, it doesn't create the fat to be stored - that comes from what you are putting in your mouth. Without insulin, fat cannot be stored and your body thinks you are starving and starts breaking down healthy tissue, turning your blood acidic and killing you.</p><p></p><p>Perpetuating a myth that insulin makes you fat is deeply unhelpful on a type 1 forum where newly diagnosed type 1s will find themselves putting on weight. The weight they will be putting on is the weight they lost pre diagnosis, when they were starving to death. And believing in such a myth is likely to make newly diagnosed vulnerable type 1s reluctant to take their life saving medication.</p><p></p><p>I believe that in type 2 diabetes it is purported that <strong>excess </strong>insulin causes weight gain. Type 1s don't take excess insulin, they take the required amount of insulin.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1649169, member: 32394"] Personally, I think this is a nonsense question and a dangerous question on a type 1 forum. Type 1 diabetics need insulin to keep them alive. Diabulimia (insulin omission to avoid weight gain) is a recognised psychiatric condition causing significant diabetic complications and death many type 1s who believe the insulin makes you fat nonsense. Insulin doesn't make you fat. It keeps you alive. What you eat makes you fat. Insulin is the hormone that allows fat to be stored in the body, it doesn't create the fat to be stored - that comes from what you are putting in your mouth. Without insulin, fat cannot be stored and your body thinks you are starving and starts breaking down healthy tissue, turning your blood acidic and killing you. Perpetuating a myth that insulin makes you fat is deeply unhelpful on a type 1 forum where newly diagnosed type 1s will find themselves putting on weight. The weight they will be putting on is the weight they lost pre diagnosis, when they were starving to death. And believing in such a myth is likely to make newly diagnosed vulnerable type 1s reluctant to take their life saving medication. I believe that in type 2 diabetes it is purported that [B]excess [/B]insulin causes weight gain. Type 1s don't take excess insulin, they take the required amount of insulin. [/QUOTE]
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