It normally starts in children, hence it is also known as juvenile diabetes.

Unfortunately, it cannot be controlled by limiting food consumption, but requires significant work around monitoring food intake, blood glucose levels and various insulin injections (or a pump).

My wife has been diagnosed for 30 years now - it is an all consuming disease- never a day off once diagnosed. Think of a time where you have been so ill, you can barely move. Well, she’s felt that AND had to ensure her blood sugar levels are maintained. If she doesn’t, then she will feel even worse, and potentially die from a coma (too low sugars) or have a significantly reduced lifespan along with many complications around eyes, heart, circulation amongst other things.

Oh, and as she is going through perimenopause, all the work and knowledge she has gained goes out of the window as her sugar levels increase or decrease without any reason due to hormones.

Any improvements to Type 1 Diabetes management can really improve quality of life, as well as decrease the cost of care (and means she can contribute more to society too).

1. A lot of children get type 2 diabetes. Children are marketed to in very manipulative ways, aren't yet fully educated, have weak impulse control, and are handed insanely sugary drinks and foods.

2. Sugar is being put into everything. Unless you're cooking for yourself (hard to do when you're working a ton) for every meal it's hard to ensure you aren't getting tons of sugar.

3. The food pyramid and other systems have been encouraging a high carb / high sugar diet for decades, there's tons of misinformation about it.

My diabetes is caused by failure of my pancreas to produce the necessary cells for insulin production, and insulin resistance of cells within my body.

Not everyone who has diabetes acquired it from bad diet.

Perhaps learn some empathy njroute22, because your comment was hurtful and demeaning.