In the diabetology department of Bagnols hospital, “we see more and more people in their thirties with type 2 diabetes”

Lundi matin, diététiciens et infirmière ont informé et fait passer des tests aux volontaires. C.B.

As part of the national type 2 diabetes prevention week, an information and prevention morning was organized at the Bagnols-sur-Cèze hospital on Monday June 3.

Sedentary lifestyle, overweight, large waistline, heredity, poor diet, age… are "risk factors for developing type 2 diabetes !" recall Tiffany Trinquart, nurse, and Sabrina Taupenas, dietician, who are part of the team in the diabetes department at Bagnols-sur-Cèze hospital. On Monday, they participated, as part of the national type 2 diabetes prevention week, in the morning of information and prevention of this disease which affects more than 4% of the French population, organized in the hall of the hospital center. On a poster, an eloquent figure: in France, 820  people live with diabetes without knowing it.

On the program for this morning, diabetes predisposition tests, hair tests (rapid finger prick blood sugar test) and even dietary and recovery advice. physical activity. "Everyone can take a diabetes predisposition test" explain health professionals. This test called Finndrisc is also posted online on the website of the French federation of diabetics (www.federationdesdiabetiques.org).

"When you have diabetes, it's for life!"

"Diabetes is diagnosed with a blood test" underlines the nurse. "If on two occasions, the fasting blood sugar level is greater than 1.26 g/l, or greater than 2 g/l at n’ no matter what time of day, diabetes is present. And when you have diabetes, it's for life!", with drug treatments "orally, injections or insulin every day. Without forgetting the complications of diabetes: "heart and kidney problems with dialysis, damaged optic nerve which can lead to blindness, blocked arteries…"

"We see more and more thirty-somethings"

If the profile of the type 2 diabetic has long been that of an overweight person in their sixties, for five years, "we see more and more thirty-somethings " we see in the diabetology department of the hospital. "These are often people who eat poorly, too many industrial dishes, or eat too often in fast food restaurants" notes the dietitian Sabrina Taupenas. Too much sugar but also too much saturated fat. "You can eat very fatty foods and become diabetic. With excess abdominal weight, insulin resistance appears".

In order to rebalance the diet of patients, – "it’is more difficult for new generations who have bad habits" – dieticians organize workshops where advice is provided. "There is a lot ofe false information about nutrition on social media" regrets Sabrina Taupenas. "There are thousands of pieces of information, people no longer know where they stand. I work a lot on the notion of regaining pleasure. You can make good meals by eating a balanced diet!"

Balanced diet

Dietitian Sabrina Taupenas gives simple recipes to avoid blood sugar spikes: favor breakfasts salty, "the jam raises blood sugar, we have a boost in the morning, and çit opens theé ;rsquo;appetite" she explains; eat fruit at the end of a meal, "never outside of meals" ; and always have on your plate "proteins, vegetables, starchy foods".

Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease

Type 1 diabetes (insulin-dependent diabetes) is an autoimmune disease, most often discovered early on. ;rsquo;childhood or adolescence. It results from the disappearance of beta cells from the pancreas which leads to a total insulin deficiency. To compensate for this lack of insulin, patients must give themselves insulin injections or use an insulin pump. insulin.

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