20% of type 2 diabetics are not obese and never have been...

[everydayupsanddowns]

So you are 14 times more likely to be dxed T2 if you are obese.

I think you've summed it up... 'more likely'

This is why so many people carry on and ignore the risk. After all if you are obese you are also 'more likely' NOT to be diabetic and to fall within the 86%

It's about risk. But they keep saying cause.

 

[mcdonagh47]

I think you've summed it up... 'more likely'

This is why so many people carry on and ignore the risk. After all if you are obese you are also 'more likely' NOT to be diabetic ....[/B].

...at the moment.

 

[Robster65]

The media message does also imply that if you eat healthily and are fit, you WON'T develop diabetes.

Misinformation.

Rob

 

[Copepod]

Eating healthily, not being overweight and being physically active also reduces other health risks eg damaged joints, some cancers, cardiovascular problems etc.

 

[Hazel]

Rob, whilst I agree with what has been said - I would say - at no time was I ever told that by being overweight would result in diabetes. - Granted, this was 12-15 years ago, there was not the focus there is now.

Would it have prompted me to lose weight - we'll never know.

Also there is no mentio about the hundreds of thousands who are NOT obese who don't go on to develop diabetes

PS - hope to see you in Manchester

 

[mcdonagh47]

Eating healthily, not being overweight and being physically active also reduces other health risks eg damaged joints, some cancers, cardiovascular problems etc.

Here's an interesting piece of research which links childhood overweight and obesity at age 5 to an increased risk of T1 diabetes by age 21.

First time I've seen a suggested association between T1 and obesity.

http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v17/n6/full/oby2008660a.html

"Overweight and increasing BMI z-score at childhood is an independent predictor of young adult's type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Findings of this study suggest that childhood BMI may be central to the development and rising incidence of all diabetes."

Last sentence is pretty chilling.

 

[Robster65]

Here's an interesting piece of research which links childhood overweight and obesity at age 5 to an increased risk of T1 diabetes by age 21.

First time I've seen a suggested association between T1 and obesity.

http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v17/n6/full/oby2008660a.html

"Overweight and increasing BMI z-score at childhood is an independent predictor of young adult's type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Findings of this study suggest that childhood BMI may be central to the development and rising incidence of all diabetes."

Last sentence is pretty chilling.

I was on the skinny side of average up to age of about 11, when I was probably slightly chubby, just before I started to lose weight due to the T1.

Interesting idea, but probably as many exceptions as rules.

Rob

 

[Northerner]

..."Overweight and increasing BMI z-score at childhood is an independent predictor of young adult's type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Findings of this study suggest that childhood BMI may be central to the development and rising incidence of all diabetes."

Last sentence is pretty chilling.

Couldn't have had anything to do with mine then, my BMI was around 18-21 until I was about 45!