Endocrine Abstracts

This presentation will review the role of nutrition in diabetes management, the evolution of advice from RD Lawrence’s Red and Black lines through to the evidence from the current era of the need to consider meal compensation as the basis for insulin dosing with food, the importance of quality of good choices on outcomes, the impact of technology on our understanding of post prandial glucose responses and insulin delivery strategies....

One of the corner stones of nutritional advice children and young people with diabetes is an awareness of how the food they choose can affect their blood glucose. Knowing; which foods contain carbohydrate, how to find this information out, how to estimate the amount of carbs and why not all carbs are the same, can help those living with diabetes, their families and careers make informed choices. Chris Cheyette is senior diabetes specialist dietitian at Kings College Hospital. ...

Introduction: The misuse or deliberate restriction of insulin for the purpose of weight loss is commonly referred to in the media and on social media as ‘Diabulimia’1, but this is not a medical definition. The relationship that young people with Type 1 Diabetes have with their weight, food and insulin is a commonly discussed, frequently studied but poorly understood issue. Mental health difficulties, especially eating disorders are common amongst adolescen...