5 Reasons That May Explain Why Type 1 Diabetes Is on the Rise

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Try cod liver oil instead of a vit D tablet, viruse and innoculations should be susupect in type 1 diabetes. No matter what they say we are head into the worst
history of the planet.. So much for modern (HA HA) medicine...

GOMI of CO 12:09PM August 09, 2010

I was born in the late 1968 and there was german measles spread in that year and I was not protected from it before the vaccine came out in the 1969. I have long believe that my diabetes was caused by german measles and it took me 21 years to diagnosed it. I am hearing impaired and have diabetes since 1991. I am currently wearing insulin pump since 1992. So German Measles is another virus that potentiol destroy insulin in the body.

Rober of NM 12:46PM August 05, 2010

Diagnosed Type 1 at age 4 or 5, in the mid-1950s. No family history of any type of diabetes. Later on I remember my Dad explaining that at the time, the pediatrician told him that the cause was likely "some shock or trauma" that messed up my autoimmune system and thus caused the destruction of the islet cells.
Sounds like we really don't KNOW any moer now than we knw then!

Mike J of VA 10:57AM July 16, 2010

I have been a type 1 diabetic pretty much my whole life. I was diagnosed at three. I am now 26. When I was diagnosed the doctors told my parents that the disease was caused by a virus. I was always a small child. I am even know a little over 5 feet, 115 pounds. Diabetes does not run in my family either. I have however, been told my whole life by every doctor every time I get blood drawn that I need vitamin D. I take a supplement every day and still no luck... Perhaps this is a step in the correct direction. Except after 23 years of living with the disease its a very small one.

Emily of IL 8:04PM July 15, 2010

I have to say to Amy of VA that weight does have an affect and may be a cause for diabetes. Is it not clear that with the rise of childhood obesity, there is a relative rise in onset juvenile diabetes?
The ironic thing is I'm skinny and was diagnosed at age 9...

Jim Phillips of AL 4:19PM July 15, 2010

This comment is in response to Amy:
I thought Hurley was making point of excessive growth - height and
weight in proportion-kids growing high off the "growth charts"--- not the overweight/obesity associated with type 2.
Maybe Hurley can clarify growth more.

Beth of MA 7:54AM July 15, 2010

Our grandson, was diagnosed at age 5. Mother is a health teacher, breast feed him until 12 mos. She is thin and tiny, he is and was thin. Endo at Boston Children's think it may start with a virus..and it may need to be a perfect storm. My brother in law has type 1. Jack gets good nutrition and plenty to sunshine and exercise. He is on the pump and doing well.

Pam of MA 7:24AM July 12, 2010

my daughter has type 1 and i just wanted to respond to the earlier post b/c it has nothing to do with weight and i did not have gestational diabetes. type2 is connected with weight not ype 1 plese get your facts straight before you post.

Amy of VA 6:36PM July 06, 2010

Modern Medicine has removed "Good Health" as a primary survival factor. People like me would have never survived without it - and now we've added our faulty genes back into the gene pool. You can expect that every genetic-based or related disease is going to increase dramatically. This has nothing to do with lifestyle, diet, or any other semi-mystical "you'll be healthy if you just do X hard enough" - *cough* vegans *cough* mega-vitamins *cough* - and everything to do with the fact that your parents weren't weeded out of the gene pool.
Is this a bad thing? Not necessarily. Look at Stephen Hawking. There's someone who has an extreme intellect and has made significant contributions to mankind. Are his genes flawed? Certainly. Does that mean he should have been "removed from the gene pool"? Certainly not. We'd all be the less for not having him here.
Eugenics is not a solution - understanding what's happening and planning for it realistically is.

sg of CA 1:10PM July 04, 2010

I don't remember where I heard this, but I heard that the chances of your baby getting type 1 diabetes increases if the mother gets gestational diabetes. Another way of looking at it - we are a society of overweight adults (and kids are catching up). A woman who is overweight and then gets pregnant gains even more weight during the pregnancy. Is an overweight woman more prone to gestational diabetes - which may cause the child to develop diabetes? Does this all come back to our obesity epidemic?

LT in Philly of PA 2:21PM June 29, 2010