People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes

[Northerner]

People risk developing type 2 diabetes if they can no longer fit into the jeans they were wearing when they were 21, according to one of the world’s leading experts on the disease.

And if people discovered they could no longer fit into the same-sized trousers then they were “carrying too much fat”, Prof Roy Taylor, from Newcastle University, said.

Taylor was presenting data at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes’ annual conference on an early study that found that people of normal weight with type 2 diabetes could “achieve remission” by losing weight.

Eight in 12 people managed to “get rid” of their condition by losing 10 to 15% of their body weight.

People who ‘can’t fit into jeans they wore aged 21’ risk developing diabetes

Study shows people with normal BMI can achieve remission of type 2 diabetes by losing 10-15% weight

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Hmm...it's 42 years since I was 21 and I weighed 8st 4lb - now I weigh 12st. No way could I get into the jeans I wore at 21 😱

 

[rebrascora]

"Hmm...it's 42 years since I was 21 and I weighed 8st 4lb - now I weigh 12st. No way could I get into the jeans I wore at 21 😱"

Does that mean we are at risk of developing Type 2 on top of our Type 1 Alan?

I am not sure I have the strength in my fingers to pull them on and do up the zip like I used to when I was 21!! Very tight jeans were all the rage then and needing a coat hanger to do up the zipper. Thank goodness for stretch fabrics these days!
I would guess that very few middle aged people could actually fit into their 21 year old self's clothes although I can fit into a a fitted dress I bought in my mid 20s as I still have in the back of the wardrobe. I think 80-90% of the population (probably more) are "at risk" going by this rule of thumb and I don't really think it is all that helpful personally. Is it realistic to aim for the body shape we were when we were 21?

 

[EmmaL76]

Well I was pregnant at 21 so does that mean my maternity jeans?? I can do that , no problemo 😉

 

[Thebearcametoo]

Well I was pregnant at 21 so does that mean my maternity jeans?? I can do that , no problemo 😉

This is my favourite take

There’s no way I could fit into my age 21 jeans but then I had an eating disorder and hadn’t had children. It seems like an arbitrary and useless measure when most people will have changed shape by their mid 40s even if they’re the same weight and most people will have put weight on.

 

[nonethewiser]

Not much chance of that happening, never did like flares.

 

[trophywench]

Didn't own any at age 21. Jeans = scruffy then. Still, 50 years later. I am only one dress size bigger than then (14 instead of 12) and I am right now wearing a pair of faded denim ones (now with honest wear holes, mainly from washing em not hard wear) not designer holes LOL which I already owned before I moved in with Pete in 1998. Now a very pale blue gorgeously soft garment. Instead of 8st 2 now 9st 10.

 

[Stuvart]

Well as I weigh a good few(5) stone less than then its not a problem unfortunately I lost the weight then got the DT2 so seems a bit wishy to me.

 

[Chris Hobson]

I would have thought that people in early middle age who are the same size as they were at 21 would be a tiny minority. It is natural for people to put on weight as they get older so I would say that the statement was pretty meaningless. I could wear Jeans belonging to 21 year old me but my waist went from 32" up to 38" and then back down to 32" after diagnosis.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

I would have thought that people in early middle age who are the same size as they were at 21 would be a tiny minority.

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