Can type 1 diabetes be prevented or cured?
While a great deal of research is being done, at this stage nothing can be done to prevent or cure type 1 diabetes. Type 2 This used to be called non-insulin dependent diabetes or mature-age onset diabetes. It is by far the most common form, affecting 85-90% of all people with diabetes. While it usually affects adults, more and younger people, even children, are getting type-2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle disease and is strongly associated with high blood pressure, abnormal blood fats and the classic ‘apple shape’ body where there is extra weight around the waist. People with type 2 diabetes are usually insulin resistant. This means that their pancreas is making insulin but the insulin is not working as well as it should, so it must make more. Eventually it can’t make enough to keep the glucose balance right. Adopting a healthy lifestyle may delay the need for tablets and/or insulin. However it is important to know that when you do need tablets and/or insulin, this is just
