Dietary Recommendations For Niddm And Iddm

To collect dietary intake data subjects were asked via telephone interview to.

Dietary recommendations for niddm and iddm. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose levels and defective carbohydrate utilization due to a relative or absolute deficiency of insulin. Dietary therapy in niddm. Despite this practice the potential role of exercise in niddm therapy has only begun to be clarified 3 7. Iddm accounts for 5 10 percent of all cases of diabetes in the us and can be diagnosed at any age including during a baby s first year.

Objective to assess the dietary intake of children with iddm and to determine whether the intake meets the current nutritional recommendations for children with iddm. Insulin injections daily were taken by 61 of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus iddm patients and 48 of insulin treated niddm patients. There are several poten tial benefits of exercise for niddm pa tients. Use of an insulin pump was rare.

Research design and methods a total of 66 children with iddm who were 10 years of age were recruited from two suburban pennsylvania hospitals. Iddm is distinguished from type ii diabetes which is typically caused by lifestyle factors such as a diet high in sugar or obesity and is more common among adults. For chil dren with iddm a goal is to match diet to insulin. Nutritional therapy is a challenging but necessary dimension in the management of diabetes.

Jam coll nutr 1993. Clearly the dietary treatment of the niddm patient remains an act of faith bearing in mind the poor compliance of the patient to dietary advice and the lack of long term studies confirming the efficacy of diets old or new in the prevention of diabetic vascular complications. At the time of diagnosis 80 90 of beta cells have been. Glucose and insulin responses to meals designed according to american diabetes association ada recommendations typical american diet or containing simple sugars and dairy foods in subjects with non insulin dependent diabetes mellitus niddm.

Few of the. Glycemic control a single bout of exercise frequently re. Baillieres clin endocrinol metab. Iddm is characterized by progressive beta cell destruction which leads to complete insulin deficiency.

Thus diet and exercise are frequently recommended together as the initial approach to therapy. Pearson gc wales jk.