What Is The Relation Between Weight Loose And Diabetes?
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Most of the doctor and information I get from the net says that to overcome type 2 diabetes, we need to loose weight. I agree that to maintain the sugar level we need some diet and exercise but why weight loose.
If someone in underweight has diabetic, then what he/she will do.
I am an pre-diabetic patient and I am trying to control my sugar level without eating any insulin. I just exercise everyday and I eat only diet food which is recommended by doctor. But works fine and my sugars are also in the normal level.
MamaSmur says:
January 31st, 2010
12:44 am
Losing weight does NOT get rid of the diabetes. It can make it much easier for you to control the disease, but it will not go away. Diabetes is not caused by being overweight. It is caused when the pancreas malfunctions and your body does not use insulin properly. Most type 2 diabetics (62%) are not, or ever have been overweight. And most doctors no longer use the phrase “pre” or “borderline” diabetes. These people are considered to be diabetic. These people can usually control their disease fairly easily with diet and exercise. Diabetes (both types) can cause a person to lose weight, sometimes in excess when they are undiagnosed. However, type 2 diabetes itself can cause some people to gain some weight. Being at a good weight just makes it much easier to control the disease. Many times, people with type 2 diabetes start out by being insulin resistant. (it is still type 2). In this case, the pancreas is making lots of insulin, but the body is not using it correctly, so the pancreas has to keep pumping out more insulin that it should have to. In some cases, the pancreas is making too much insulin. Either way, it is type 2 diabetes. Some type 2 diabetics (11%) can actually control their disease by eating right and getting daily exercise. This usually works well for them for many years. But as the years pass, most of them have to start taking medications, because their pancreas is now tired and worn and can no longer produce enough insulin the body requires.
Insulin is an injected hormone….it is not taken by mouth. The oral medications that type 2 diabetics take do not contain insulin. (the stomach fluids would destroy insulin, that is why it must be injected under the skin)
Once you are a diabetic, you are always a diabetic. The only cure is a pancreas transplant. Some people think that a gastric bypass surgery cures diabetes, but this is not really the case. These people still have to follow a diet and most of the time take medications to control their disease….it is NOT cured by gastric by pass as they once said. You can’t cure either type of diabetes, you can only control it.
Those that are underweight with diabetes, still have to watch their diet, and many have to take medications. Type 1 diabetics have to take insulin every day, and most type 2′s have to take oral med, insulin, or both.
kimsin says:
January 31st, 2010
1:09 am
I think weight loose indirectly means diet and exercise. So doctors says weight loose.
Gary B says:
January 31st, 2010
4:19 am
There are two types of diabetes:
TYPE1 is characterized by a COMPLETE failure of the pancreas to produce insulin. These people need daily injections to stay alive. This most often happens in children, and is often called Juvenile Diabetes, but you can get Type 1 Diabetes at ANY age.
TYPE2 Diabeetes is characterized by a PARTIAL failure of the pancreas to produce enough insulin. It produces some, but not enough.
Now, every cell in your body needs insulin — including fat cells. People that are overweight have more cells that normal weight people, but their pancreas ddoes not produce enough insulin to handle ALL the cells. Since most adults gain weight, Type 2 Diabetes is often called Adult Onset Diabetes, but the sad fact is that many young children, 10-11 years old, are becoming overweight (due to video games) and they are becoming Type 2 Diabetics.
If the overweight patient loses weight, there will be fewer cells, and the insulin that the body does produce may be enough. This means that as the patient loses weight, the dosages of medication can be reduced, and possibly eliminated.
But the TYPE 1 Diabetic produces NO insulin. Weight loss will not help them. They MUST have their insulin shots, or they will die.
But a side effect of insulin is weight gain. So by taking insulin they gain weight. That means more cells, so they need more insulin — and more insulin means more weight gain . . . . Do you see the vicious circle here?
So the Type 1 Diabeteic MUST maintain a normal-to-thin weight in oder that the amount of insulin they need can be controlled.
By the way, you cannot “eat” insulin. There is no “insulin pill” available. Insulin is destroyed by the stomach’s digestiive juices. Insulin can be taken ONLY by injection.
if you are taking pills, they either cause you body to produce more insulin, or they cause you body to better use the insulin it has.
But there is NO insulin pill.