Type 2 diabetes used to be a disease of late middle-age 

Now it appears that three year olds can develop it…

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/sep/16/type-2-diabetes-three-year-old-girl-obesity
Interestingly, the doctor says (I assume it was the doctor) that the child’s diet was high in calories and fat. Why is he talking about fat, which has no effect on insulin at all, and not making any mention of carbohydrates (especially sugar) which is most probably the cause of the diabetes.

Anyway, I am glad the little girl is cured. Type 2 diabetes is a curable disease. With a hat tip to The Diet Doctor, here is a cartoon from Dr Ian Booth (The Banting Doctor!!) 

  
https://twitter.com/DrIanBooth/status/643264125271961600

Advertisement

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s