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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The majority of Americans think that type 1 diabetes, a chronic condition with no known cause or treatment, can be actively prevented.
Type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease, is distinct but often confused with Type 2 diabetes, a metabolic disease driven by lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise. A survey from the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance revealed that 77 percent of respondents believe that a healthy lifestyle reduces the likelihood of getting type 1 diabetes, and half believe that ?different lifestyle choices? could have saved people with type 1 from developing the disease. Further, a third blamed the parents of children with type 1 diabetes for causing their condition, and 45 percent cite ?too much sugar? as a reason for developing type 1.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11317899.htm
Terrible! 😱 But a shame that, in the same breath, they blame all Type 2s for bringing it on themselves
Type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disease, is distinct but often confused with Type 2 diabetes, a metabolic disease driven by lifestyle choices such as diet and exercise. A survey from the Juvenile Diabetes Cure Alliance revealed that 77 percent of respondents believe that a healthy lifestyle reduces the likelihood of getting type 1 diabetes, and half believe that ?different lifestyle choices? could have saved people with type 1 from developing the disease. Further, a third blamed the parents of children with type 1 diabetes for causing their condition, and 45 percent cite ?too much sugar? as a reason for developing type 1.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/11/prweb11317899.htm
Terrible! 😱 But a shame that, in the same breath, they blame all Type 2s for bringing it on themselves