In insulin dependent diabetes, the insulin one takes to SURVIVE helps cells to burn carbohydrates to provide needed cellular energy but ALSO INCREASES FAT-CELL STORING OF ENERGY that can't be "sucked out at will."

Poor regulation of the release of energy from body "storage" is part and parcel of the illness.

While most diabetics benefit from losing weight, and it's recommended for those who can, especially for those requiring insulin, and most especially for those unable to obtain good control of their sugar levels because their body simply doesn't cooperate, there IS NO CHOICE using ordinary or even extreme dietary methods other than to BE FAT OR BE DEAD. An unregulated low sugar level does NOT just make you hungry. It makes you DEAD. If your body chooses to not release fat, you must eat to maintain "living levels" of blood sugar - even if it means that part of your food intake will add to the stored fat.

Even the "extreme methods" available, such as the various forms of bariatric surgey, carry SUBSTANTIAL SURGICAL RISK, serious and IRREVERSIBLE side effects, and NO GUARANTEE OF SUCCESS.

But some people do continue to ridicule and object to seeing anyone with a handicap of any kind. It's just to bad that STUPID doesn't show quite so obviously as some other difficulties.

John