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News items re Meditteranean diet

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pandm

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Diabetes is fast becoming the word to be used by the media, health gurus et al when discussing obesity, lack of exercise and poor life style. In other words blame the sufferer.
The latest news being if we ate the above Med diet our risk of becoming diabetic would be slashed by 83 per cent. If that was true why should there be people with diabetes in Spain, France and Italy and Australia where fruit, salads and vegetables are plentiful. Fair enough there are people in the very obese classification who become diabetic but get back to normal when losing weight.

I am type 1 and have been for very many years - brought up and fed on rationed food in World War 2 and afterwords and like so many others always tried hard to eat the right food. Does the 17 percent who get diabetes mean type 1? Then they should say so! In fact some type 2's become diabetic when just over the age line.

I am fed up with Diabetes now being the dirty word and the scapegoat for many ills of the world.
Also some articles don't even mention the fact that if not discovered early enough and the right treatment given, then death is likely to be the outcome. I am sad and mad!!!!!!!!
 
Hi,

The paleo style diet has been found to be superior to the med diet and that has been found to be better than the usual western diet. Basically the fewer refined carbs you eat and the healthier fats you eat the better.
 
Hi pandm,

I agree. It really bugs me too. I have even had 'remarks' from acquaintances to the effect that our two Type 1 daughters have developed the disease because we obviously have allowed them to eat loads of sugary junk since they first drew breath!! :( These are people that I now avoid speaking to whenever possible, having attempted to educate them first, but usually to no avail as they are so brainwashed by what's in the press etc. It makes me mad too.
Sue
 
diabetesmum said:
Hi pandm,

I agree. It really bugs me too. I have even had 'remarks' from acquaintances to the effect that our two Type 1 daughters have developed the disease because we obviously have allowed them to eat loads of sugary junk since they first drew breath!! :( These are people that I now avoid speaking to whenever possible, having attempted to educate them first, but usually to no avail as they are so brainwashed by what's in the press etc. It makes me mad too.
Sue
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Don't uninformed people say the stupidist things :evil: :evil:
 
The original study makes it clear that they were looking at the protective qualities of the Mediterranean diet against type 2 diabetes not type 1.

Conclusion
Higher adherence to a Mediterranean diet rich in olive oil, plant based foods (fruits, vegetables, and legumes), and fibre but low in meats was inversely associated with incidence of type 2 diabetes among initially healthy participants
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http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.39561.501007.BEv1

The Sardinians have the second highest incidence of type 1. They presumably eat a Mediterranean style diet but it (unsurprisingly) confers no protection.
 
Hi,

I also agree that uneducated people are infuriating when it comes to Diabetes. I am your typical Diabetic shape and carry any extra weight around my middle. I do however stick to a healthy diet and before being diagnosed 3 years ago I had four pregnancies/kids and had gestational diabetes with each pregnancy. No surprise when I was then diagnosed a few years later. I am not massively overweight however the moment you tell people you have Type 2 diabetes they automatically assume that it is because of what you eat and your weight.

I find myself almost ashamed because people seem to think that I brought this on myself. I however know that it was obviously something in my make up and I would still have become diabetic whether I was stick thin or not. The media seem to use us as scapegoats for people's sedentary lifestyles and bad diets and although obviously some people do become diabetic for those reasons, the vast majority of us do not.

Michelle.
 
From the study - "Briefly, we invited all former students of the University of Navarra, registered nurses from Spanish provinces, and university graduates from other associations to take part in the project."

Hardly a group which is representative of the wider population.
 
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