News Women With Severest Of Ptsd At High Risk For Type 2 Diabetes

[anthony]

A 22 year longitudinal study has concluded that women with six plus symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are twice as likely to develop Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) compared with women who don't have PTSD.

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I think this is significant in the scheme of females to male ratio here.

 

[Sammyiam]

Mmmm Great just what we need !!!!!!!

 

[Deleted member 1860]

All the more reason to reject the SAD! (Standard American Diet) I don't know what its like anywhere else, but the American diet is full of processed foods, fatty fast foods, etc. No wonder we have an obesity epidemic...

I'm trying to move in a lower carb, more whole food sort of diet.

 

[rightkindofme]

And breastfeeding lowers your risk of lifetime diabetes. So I made sure I nursed as long as possible. I'm trying to balance the factors. :D

 

[Fadeaway]

I have insulin resistance, yet I eat an all organic, zero processed food diet. Having celiacs, I have found it easier to eliminated all grains for the most part so my sugar intake is very low. (Except for the occasional red bull which is my guilty pleasure and is a big splotch on my otherwise healthy diet)

I know red bull alone didn't cause my insulin resistance, so this make so much more sense.

 

[J_trustno1]

Wow, great! I have been exercising and eating healthy for the last 8years just to find out I will probably have Diabetes. I won't be surprised if I had it because it is inherited from both sides of the family.

 

[Fadeaway]

@J_trustno1 It isn't a guaranteed thing, just an increased risk. Taking care of your health like you have means you have already done so much to lower your risk. I may have insulin resistance but I am sure that my healthy diet has played a huge role in keeping that from blossoming into full blown diabetes.

Your hard work won't be in vain, I am sure of it.

 

[sun seeker]

And breastfeeding lowers your risk of lifetime diabetes.

Sorry to ask what might be an obvious question, but is the lowered risk in the mother or the child?

 

[HëllaBubz]

Note to self, breastfeed forever! My diet is pretty good, so time to get this fat off super quick!

 

[Queen Boudica]

Knew there was some excuse why I have such a big fat belly

But I literally did breastfeed forever with my kids. Think my breast milk must be nectar or something. Too embarrassed to say when I stopped feeding the youngest one. She used to call them my nibbles

 

[Lucycat]

I take Quetiapine. That is known to increase the risk of diabetes. I am very diabetes aware coming from a long line of diabetics.

What the short article does not tell us is what medication the participants were on or if it was controlled for. Is it the PTSD itself that increases the risk or the drugs they took for their PTSD?

 

[HëllaBubz]

Don't be embarrassed, the stuff isn't called liquid gold for nothing!