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Well then, Now I have second reason to blame my mum for my DM2   <grin But on the other hand my youinger sister was also considerably premature and she has no DM2 I still think in my case it’s down to putting on weight after 30s.  I was as skinny as a rake before that. David

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Peter, I wasn’t chubby as a child, in fact, I was seriously undersized so I was always the smallest kid in the class and was only 4′ 10" when I was 11 years old.  I reached a normal size only at adolescence. But even though I controlled my weight very well, I developed gestational diabetes during my first pregnancy though I was a foxy 118 lbs when it started. In my late 40s my weight suddenly went completely out of control though I was eating the same way as I always had. My usual diet strategies failed, and about a year later I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. At that point, cutting carbs got things back under control, but it’s a constant ongoing struggle to keep under control and I sometimes think with wonder of what I used to be able to eat without a second thought. If I go over 1400 calories for more than a few days now, I’m guaranteed to pack on real weight. — Jenny  - Low Carbing for 5 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.7 . Cut the carbs to respond to my  email address! Jenny’s new site: What they Don’t Tell You About Diabetes http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Jenny’s Low Carb Diet Facts & Figures http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit  http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm x-no-archive: yes Peter, The findings of this study seem to me to fit right in with previous findings that maternal malnutrition correlated with the later development of high levels of diabetes in offspring. Low birth weight babies often result when mothers diet during pregnancy or are anorectic. Though our family has a history of diabetes none of my first degree relatives has it, so I suspect mine resulted from my mother’s anorectic eating. She weighed 98 lbs when she got pregnant with me and used to brag about how she didn’t gain weight. She is 5" 6"! Were you a chubby, slightly overweight, child ? I was always small and thin up to about age 8 and then became chubby until my late teens when I lost weight and got fit. I remember thinking back then, when I came across the word metabolism in biology lessons, that I had a different metabolism to my friends and that some kind of switch had flicked on in me about age 8. I wasn’t dxed dm until age 42, when I had been overweight again for about six years. I’m going to ask my sisters whether I was premature or underweight. I was born towards the end of a period of rationing in Britain after WW2.

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Peter, I wasn’t chubby as a child, in fact, I was seriously undersized so I was always the smallest kid in the class and was only 4′ 10" when I was 11 years old.  I reached a normal size only at adolescence. But even though I controlled my weight very well, I developed gestational diabetes during my first pregnancy though I was a foxy 118 lbs when it started. In my late 40s my weight suddenly went completely out of control though I was eating the same way as I always had. My usual diet strategies failed, and about a year later I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. At that point, cutting carbs got things back under control, but it’s a constant ongoing struggle to keep under control and I sometimes think with wonder of what I used to be able to eat without a second thought. If I go over 1400 calories for more than a few days now, I’m guaranteed to pack on real weight. — Jenny  - Low Carbing for 5 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.7 . Cut the carbs to respond to my  email address! Jenny’s new site: What they Don’t Tell You About Diabetes http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Jenny’s Low Carb Diet Facts & Figures http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit  http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – x-no-archive: yes Peter, The findings of this study seem to me to fit right in with previous findings that maternal malnutrition correlated with the later development of high levels of diabetes in offspring. Low birth weight babies often result when mothers diet during pregnancy or are anorectic. Though our family has a history of diabetes none of my first degree relatives has it, so I suspect mine resulted from my mother’s anorectic eating. She weighed 98 lbs when she got pregnant with me and used to brag about how she didn’t gain weight. She is 5" 6"! Were you a chubby, slightly overweight, child ? I was always small and thin up to about age 8 and then became chubby until my late teens when I lost weight and got fit. I remember thinking back then, when I came across the word metabolism in biology lessons, that I had a different metabolism to my friends and that some kind of switch had flicked on in me about age 8. I wasn’t dxed dm until age 42, when I had been overweight again for about six years. I’m going to ask my sisters whether I was premature or underweight. I was born towards the end of a period of rationing in Britain after WW2.

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Peter, The findings of this study seem to me to fit right in with previous findings that maternal malnutrition correlated with the later development of high levels of diabetes in offspring. Low birth weight babies often result when mothers diet during pregnancy or are anorectic. Though our family has a history of diabetes none of my first degree relatives has it, so I suspect mine resulted from my mother’s anorectic eating. She weighed 98 lbs when she got pregnant with me and used to brag about how she didn’t gain weight. She is 5" 6"! — Jenny  - Low Carbing for 5 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.7 . Cut the carbs to respond to my  email address! Jenny’s new site: What they Don’t Tell You About Diabetes http://www.geocities.com/lottadata4u/ Jenny’s Low Carb Diet Facts & Figures http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit  http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – x-no-archive: yes Were you a premature / underweight baby or have you had a such a child ? If so this latest NZ research is a bit of a downer ….. such babies are more likely to develop Insulin Resistance in childhood. Got to check with your mum or your birth records if in existence. But is it a chicken and egg situation – is the IR the result of premature/underweright birth or is the premature/underweight birth due to something already being wrong in the foetal metabolism ? As usual … "more research needed" please. "CONCLUSIONS: Like children who were born at term but who were small for gestational age, children who were born prematurely have an isolated reduction in insulin sensitivity, which may be a risk factor for type 2 diabetes mellitus.

"http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&… bstract&list_uids=15548778 – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – A bit worrying was the finding that hyperinsulinemia had already started in the premature children at age 4 – 10 .. "As compared with controls, both groups of premature children had a compensatory increase in acute insulin release". If the Beta cells are working overtime as early as age 4 it might explain why T2s present in middle age with 50% of them already gone.

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Thanks for the suggestion.   Unfortunately the Atlantic Ocean separates us. I have every reason to believe she has regular checkups in B Columbia. David

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – x-no-archive: yes Well then, Now I have second reason to blame my mum for my DM2   <grin But on the other hand my youinger sister was also considerably premature and she has no DM2 susceptibility to  T2 diabetes just because she is your sister, never mind the premature birth aspect which might well add to her risk. And since diabetes is sometimes said to run in families in an uncle-neice and aunt-nephew sequence her children need to keep an eye on the issue and their lifestyle. Have you given your sister a bg test 1 hr or 2 hr pp ?

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