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Diagnosing Diabetes
What is Type I Diabetes?
What is Type II Diabetes?
Diet Differences for Type I & Type II Diabetes
How Excess Fat Affects Diabetes
Reading Nutritional Labels for Diabetics
Treating the Different Types of Diabetes
Body Weight in Type II Diabetes
Exercise Benefits for Diabetics
Amputation & Diabetes
Insulin Regimens for Diabetes
Blood Sugar Monitors for Diabetics
Low Blood Sugar Symptoms
High Blood Sugar Symptoms
Possible Cures for Type I Diabetes
Remission Signs for Type II Diabetes
Resources for Diabetics
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Summary: The main reason people develop type II diabetes is because they are overweight. Learn how body fat encourages type II diabetes in this free video from a nutritionist specializing in diabetic diets.
Heidi Kaufman is a licensed dietitian and nutritionist, and she is a certified diabetes educator for Partners in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition in Wilmington, North Carolina....read more
"One of the principle reasons why a person develops type II diabetes is because they are overweight. And the reason is because as the body increases the amount of fat that it accumulates particularly if it's in the stomach region, then the body becomes - each cell becomes less and less sensitive to the insulin it produces. It also because it's creating more cells, does not produce enough insulin to handle the excess cells. So, as the body loses weight, reduces cell size, reduces cell number that also brings the body back to a state where it can handle the insulin that it does produce, but for the most part there is something that we call insulin resistance that is created when the person increases their weight. And one of the best ways to think of it is this: when the body has a lot of excess energy it loses its incentive to get new energy into the cell because all this excess is hanging around. As you lose weight, the cells perk up. "Aw, we're losing energy now. We need to capture some energy." And so by losing weight, you force the cells to try to work harder to extract that energy. When the cells are full of energy, full of the fat, they don't - there's less of less of the motivation to extract more sugar out of the bloodstream. And, so by losing weight, you improve the overall condition of diabetes. And then often people can put type II diabetes in remission through a weight loss. We found this to be especially true when someone has the gastric bypass surgery. Often within two months of the surgery, they have lost 50 pounds and the diabetes has been put completely in remission. Even if they were taking insulin or other oral medications."
eHow Article: Body Weight in Type II Diabetes
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