You're right Lez.....it's the same everywhere, eat carbs, diabetic or not.

Amazing isn't it? They've been pushing carbs on diabetics over the past several years, and the incidence of diabetes related complications is on the rise. No one sees the connection?

25+ years ago when I was in school (nursing) we were taught that Type 2 was simply the pancreas wearing out. Some people were more susceptable to this, depending on family history, and others were felt to become diabetic earlier if they had high carb intake and poor diet.....but the general thought was that eventually, if we lived long enough, just about everyone would eventually become diabetic. If you didn't have a family history and/or ate well this might not happen until you were in your 80's or 90's or even older (and in those days not as many people lived to those ages) BUT, if you didn't have a healthy diet, ate a lot of sugars and starches you could "wear out" your pancrease even sooner.....add family history into the mix and you might even become diabetic before you hit 50!

Now, without high sugar and starch diets, look how young we're "wearing out" our pancreases!

Why does no one see the connection?