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T2 and overweight

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hanadr

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I like so many T2s am overweight( down from obese :D ), but I am convinced that the weight problem is part of the symptoms of T2 and not a cause. I have no scientific evidence for this. Just a gut feeling.
I watched a programme on TV about hugely morbidly obese people in the USA having stomach reducing surgery to lose weight. One man weighed 73 stones and couldn't even sit up, let alone stand. there was a huge woman and the world's biggest teenager, who could just walk to the loo, but had to squeeze through the door. In none of these cases was Diabetes mentioned. Also none of them was put on a low carb diet. They were subjected to surgery. The woman died a couple of weeks after from a heart attack.
I felt sorry for these imprisoned people, but couldn't understand how their "loved ones" would bring them everal portions of fast food for meals. The 73 stone man's family ate sitting on sofas, never at a table and the 5 month grandchild was being fed burgers :shock:
And yett the "D" word wasn't mentioned
 
This is something that really annoys me.

They say you are diabetic because you are fat, if thats the case why arnt all fat/obese people diabetic.

Just recently attended a Desmond course and to be honest they more or less said we ate our self into type2 diabetes. :x :x :x

This makes my blood boil. :x

Brian
 
It's particulaly annoying when Healthcare professionals show such ignorance.
 
I have watched a few of these programmes about super-morbidly obese individuals and they do indeed have diabetes,I think that it is so common amongst them that they just don't mention it!It was commented on,however when ,after the op they lost all the weight and their diabetes,'went away' as well.
 
I must have missed that bit. I saw it last night. Can't emember the channel. One of the freeview ones.
 
I too read somewhere that bariatric surgery has reversed insulin resistance. My GP was insistent that I should go through the procedure for the first two sessions after diagnosis, until I could really demonstrate that I was losing weight.

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as my limited understanding runs - if you have diabetes (or prediabetes or insulin resistance) then you cannot process the carbs you eat so excessive glucathingy runs rampant in your blood, which can lead to weight gain and high cholesterol ... I think diabetes is highly causal in weight management problems.
 
hanadr said:
It's particulaly annoying when Healthcare professionals show such ignorance.
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Exactly! You can forgive journalists as they are paid to be clueless but not nurses or doctors.

The stats are something like 20% of Type 2s are not overweight and 80% of obese people are not diabetic.

Count Pareto would have liked those numbers.

There's some correlation but much of the current research suggests the overweight is a symptom rather than a cause.
 
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