I thought diabetes people are fat?
why is all these answers for people diagnosed with diabetes says they’re suppose to lose weight when I see all these diabetes people are fat? what is it?
Not everyone who has diabetes is overweight. Many people who have diabetes, particularly Type 1 diabetes, may be quite thin. It is Type 2 diabetes that is linked to being overweight.
admin on October 14th 2009 in Diabetes and Fats
dschmidty412 responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 8:48 am #
Many people that are skinny have diabetes as well. If you lose weight when you have diabetes you don’t have to take so much medication.
Pretty soon half the country will have diabetes. The nursing home I work at many people are skinny and have diabetes.
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Jennifer responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 8:55 am #
People don’t necessarily have to be fat to be diabetes but due to today’s diets and lack of exercise many type 2 diabetics are, but not all. Yes people do tend to loose weight when they are diabetics as the body and kidneys cannot cope with all the excess sugar in the blood than has not been used for energy and so flushed it out in urine. This could meant though that people can go from fat to slimmer or people with type 1 diabetes can become extremely thin. it a common mistake to place All diabetic folk as fat, a mistake that just needs to be corrected.
Hope this helps xx
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Jessica M responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:01 am #
Depends on which type of diabetes you have. Usually type 1 diabetes mellitus causes rapid weight loss. My fiance was 250 lbs when he started getting the symptoms of diabetes and a year later he was 190 lbs. This is because in type 1 no insulin is being produced in the body and there for all glucose comes out in the urine and doesn’t get stored in the body. When someone goes undiagnosed for a long time like my fiance, all that fat content gets used up when the blood sugar is not under control.
As for type 2 diabetes, some insulin is still being produced in which fat is still being allowed to be stored.
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Imaka responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:27 am #
Not everyone who has diabetes is overweight. Many people who have diabetes, particularly Type 1 diabetes, may be quite thin. It is Type 2 diabetes that is linked to being overweight.
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Kassie responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 9:49 am #
The reason so many people think that diabetics are overweight, is because 90-95% of all people with diabetes have Type 2 Diabetes, and being overweight can contribute to the development of Type 2.
5-10% have Type 1 Diabetes, which is usually diagnosed in children and people under 20 years old, but not always. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease, in which the immune system attacks the insulin-producing Beta Cells in the Pancreas. There is no cure for type 1, and you can’t prevent it. Most people lose a lot (some just a little, some not any) of weight before being diagnosed with Type 1, because when the Pancrease doesn’t produce insulin, glucose can’t be turned into energy, and your body doesn’t recieve the nutrients it needs, so the body thinks it’s starving, and therefore goes into starvation mode, which causes people to lose weight.
Hope I helped!
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Sophia J responded on 14 Oct 2009 at 10:16 am #
Diabetes is a deadly disease that should be avoided at all cost. It is generally recommended to lose weight when a person is found to be suffering from diabetes specially from type 2. Diabetic people become thin , if one is overweight he is asked to shed extra pounds in order to make the treatment effective.
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