How does type 1 diabetes cause weight loss?
In type 1 diabetes, could somone please explain to me how and why this causes weightloss?
Uncontrolled type 1 causes weight loss. Essentially insulin is the key that lets nutrients (carbs) into your cells in your body to create energy. Type 1′s do not make insulin, so the cells are starving. For energy, the body will burn off fat cells and this is what causes a type 1 to have rapid weight loss.
October 27th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
because your on a diet, and because you can’t eat as much as you were able to when you didn’t have diabetes!
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October 27th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Uncontrolled type 1 causes weight loss. Essentially insulin is the key that lets nutrients (carbs) into your cells in your body to create energy. Type 1′s do not make insulin, so the cells are starving. For energy, the body will burn off fat cells and this is what causes a type 1 to have rapid weight loss.
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October 27th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Type 2 can cause weight loss also . My dad lost 40 pounds before he found out what was wrong. My son lost 15 and I lost about 10. I had to work to gain weight back because I was only 103 to begin with. I still have to fight to keep my weight up
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diabetic 15 years
Lots of diabetic ed. classes
Dr and nutritionist
October 27th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes, also called immune-mediated diabetes, was formerly called insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). It is a disease that results from the body’s failure to produce insulin, the hormone that allows glucose to enter the cells of the body to fuel them. This is most often the result of an autoimmune process in which the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the insulin producing cells of the pancreas. When glucose cannot enter the cells, it builds up in the blood and the body’s cells literally starve to death. People with type 1 diabetes must take daily insulin injections and regularly monitor their blood sugar levels.
The cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown, but is is known that people inherit a tendency to get diabetes. However, not all people who have this tendency will get the disease. Type 1 diabetes usually starts in children or young adults, but can start at any age. More than 700,000 Americans have this type of diabetes — about 10 percent of all diagnosed cases.
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