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Posted 10/8/2013 6:50 PM (GMT 0)
No one is immune from type 2:

http://www.today.com/entertainment/tom-hanks-reveals-he-has-type-2-diabetes-late-show-8C11355844

Posted 10/8/2013 7:50 PM (GMT 0)
Sometimes when you get to "a certain age" it just rears its ugly head. Also, his repeated rapid weight gains and losses for roles can't have helped. Putting your body in starvation mode makes it convert more food to glucose, and doing that too often can make the conversion permanent.

Then there's also family history. My husband had no other risk factors, but both his mother and younger brother had very aggressive type II. He has done better than they did, but then he's much better about diet.
Posted 10/8/2013 8:02 PM (GMT 0)
I was just thinking about how he put on weight and lost it (or vice versa) for his movie Castaway.   That and with age he's probably become very insulin resistant.  This mechanism to survive may have helped in the past but it's not doing me any good, I can tell you that. 
Posted 10/8/2013 9:17 PM (GMT 0)
Robert DeNiro also had a colossal weight fluctuation for his 1980 movie Raging Bull. Not to mention the yo-yo fluctuations of Oprah Winfrey and Kirstie Alley.

Post Edited (BabeintheWoods) : 10/8/2013 3:20:20 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 10/9/2013 1:18 PM (GMT 0)
Yep. And there are probably more.
Posted 10/9/2013 1:45 PM (GMT 0)
I read somewhere yesterday the Halle Berry is type II. That really surprised me, because she's tiny!
Posted 10/9/2013 1:54 PM (GMT 0)
I think she's type 1. I'll go check Google.

Well, there seem to be different stories!  Type 1 or 2?

http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20490828_2,00.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-371528/Halle-Berry-My-battle-diabetes.html

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/DiabetesResource/story?id=3822870&page=1

A confusing story.  First she said or thought she was type 1?   Then, she's type 2.   She must have been type 2 all along.

Posted 10/9/2013 8:53 PM (GMT 0)
Per Tom Hanks

"My doctor said, 'Look, if you can weigh as much as you weighed in high school, you'll essentially be completely healthy. You will not have Type 2 diabetes,"

While such control is not possible for many,  the rise in incidence would certainly be curtailed if the lifestyle message was taken as well as the medicine route.

Whether for simple blood pressure or diabetes,  I can tell from my own neighborhood that very few include both diet and exercise as part of their solution after diagnosis.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if Tom Hanks would allow himself to be a role model for those who don't resort to medicine before attempting the full measure of lifestyle changes?

Posted 10/9/2013 9:11 PM (GMT 0)
Have you noticed when looking at photos from 30 and more years ago that people were thinner? Then, look at pictures in the papers and magazines of ordinary folks today, especially groups of any people, everyone is heavier. Maybe not "everyone". But in general.

Hanks might have been exaggerating when he said he weighed 97 lbs in high school but I believe weight gain grabs a LOT of people now - and not just as they get older but I'm seeing heavy school-age kids.

We've gone around the block on this topic here but it's true. We don't walk as much anymore and there are machines that make our lives much easier so we don't have to work our muscles as hard.

Well, realizing this, we just have to work harder to keep weight down and doing that will help keep blood sugar and blood pressure more in control.
Posted 10/10/2013 9:41 PM (GMT 0)
I am now down to 129 lbs (wife doesn't like it) since my surgery 6 weeks ago from 142 lbs before my surgery and I just started walking every day but only for 20 minutes, 14 more lbs and I am back to my teenage weight of 115 lbs when I first became Type 1 nono
Posted 10/10/2013 10:11 PM (GMT 0)
How tall are you? Have you been eating ok? How's your energy level? It sounds like you're getting your strength back. Feeling ok? I hope so.

yeah
Posted 10/11/2013 12:16 PM (GMT 0)
Lanie I'm 5'6" (there is some debate over that smilewinkgrin), almost eating the same, energy is hit and miss still have some pain living on Tums off the pain meds
Posted 10/11/2013 8:28 PM (GMT 0)
I hope you're continuing to improve. Do you have a follow-up appointment with your doctor soon?
Posted 10/12/2013 1:00 PM (GMT 0)
Cardio Surgeon Oct 30th, Cardiologist (be a bit of cool reception) Dec 13 and in between Family Doctor
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