This is to help Type 1 Diabetics- it has nothing to do with lifestyle nor diet. It is where the pancreas stops producing insulin.

It normally starts in children, hence it is also known as juvenile diabetes.

Unfortunately, it cannot be controlled by limiting food consumption, but requires significant work around monitoring food intake, blood glucose levels and various insulin injections (or a pump).

My wife has been diagnosed for 30 years now - it is an all consuming disease- never a day off once diagnosed. Think of a time where you have been so ill, you can barely move. Well, she’s felt that AND had to ensure her blood sugar levels are maintained. If she doesn’t, then she will feel even worse, and potentially die from a coma (too low sugars) or have a significantly reduced lifespan along with many complications around eyes, heart, circulation amongst other things.

Oh, and as she is going through perimenopause, all the work and knowledge she has gained goes out of the window as her sugar levels increase or decrease without any reason due to hormones.

Any improvements to Type 1 Diabetes management can really improve quality of life, as well as decrease the cost of care (and means she can contribute more to society too).

I want to point out that this is an idiotic take even outside of the fact that type 1 diabetes has nothing to do with diet.

1. A lot of children get type 2 diabetes. Children are marketed to in very manipulative ways, aren't yet fully educated, have weak impulse control, and are handed insanely sugary drinks and foods.

2. Sugar is being put into everything. Unless you're cooking for yourself (hard to do when you're working a ton) for every meal it's hard to ensure you aren't getting tons of sugar.

3. The food pyramid and other systems have been encouraging a high carb / high sugar diet for decades, there's tons of misinformation about it.

I would recommend spending 5 seconds or more researching Type I diabetes.

Even better, reading the first sentence of the article. It explains what Type 1 is.

I'm a type 2 diabetic. My diabetes was not caused by diet.

My diabetes is caused by failure of my pancreas to produce the necessary cells for insulin production, and insulin resistance of cells within my body.

Not everyone who has diabetes acquired it from bad diet.

Perhaps learn some empathy njroute22, because your comment was hurtful and demeaning.

That sounds like Type 1 diabetes. Your pancreas doesn't generate insulin in Type 1, and in type 2 your body has insulin resistance, which makes the insulin that your body makes ineffective at regulating your blood sugar.

Type 2 diabetes is not a single disease, but rather a combination of failed signaling pathways in a variety of tissue.

For some people, they will have insulin resistance in fat cells, so lipolysis continues even during high insulin levels.

Some people will have hepatic insulin resistance so their liver does not uptake glucose as glycogen as readily or inhibit gluconeogenesis.

Some people will have insulin resistance in the pancreatic alpha cells, so glucagon production continues in the presence of insulin.

Some people will have skeletal muscle tissue insulin resistance, where excess glucose is not as readily taken up by skeletal muscle tissue (our most metabolic active tissue).

Some people can also have insulin resistance along side decreased insulin production in the pancreatic beta cells. This is mixed type 1 and type 2.