In this web exclusive interview with Darren Hardy, The Biggest Loser trainer Kim Lyons discusses steps you can take to help fight children’s diabetes and how you can set a good example by staying active, too. Click here to download a free chart to help track your healthy eating.

2 Responses to “Kim Lyons: Helping Children Avoid Diabetes”

1. Armando Duran Says:
   January 26th, 2011 at 11:54 am

   Great clip! I just tweeted this. Gotta spread the word! http://www.twitter.com/LoftBar_NBistro

2. Jacquie Lewis-Kemp Says:
   January 26th, 2011 at 5:40 pm

   Thank you for discussing this pervasive chronic disease, diabetes, that can be well controlled with education and discipline–diet and exercise.

   I’d like to caution you however as you discuss diabetes in children and diabetes in adults. There are two types of diabetes and while both result in elevated blood sugars and both have the risk of serious complications, they really are two very different conditions.

   Type 1 diabetes is typically what you find in children and most likely what the interviewer’s godson has. Type 1 is when the pancreas doesn’t produce insulin at all and the condition is treated with insulin injections.

   Type 2 diabetes is usually a result of a change in lifestyle–a more sedintary lifestyle or weight gain and the pancreas cannot produce enough insulin. Type 2 can be treated with oral meds that stimulate the pancreas to produce more insulin or make the insulin produced work more efficiently.

   I ask you to exercise caution when you discuss “preventing diabetes in children” because there is no cure or known cause for Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 children and thier parents shouldn’t be made to believe that they somehow are at fault for their diabetes.

   I have lived successfully with Type 1 diabetes for more than 40 years; two degrees; a husband; a 19 year old son and ran an automotive supplier before writing my book about living with diabetes, Blessed Assurance: Success Despite the Odds.

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