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Hi! My name is Brenda Thompson, registered dietitian and owner of Life Skills Nutrition.
In this segment, I'm going to talk about types of diabetes. There are 4 types of diabetes.
The first type is type 1. Type 1 was formally called insulin dependent diabetes or juvenile
onset diabetes. Often times, type 1 diabetes occurs in children and young adults, usually
30 or younger. Type 2 diabetes, however, is when the pancreas produces little insulin,
or the body cells reject the insulin, where type 1, generally the body produces no insulin.
Type 2 is historically called adult onset diabetes. Generally, people diagnosed with
type 2 diabetes are over the age of 45. However, we starting to see children developing type
2 diabetes. The third type is gestational diabetes. This develops during pregnancy and
usually goes away. However, women who have gestational diabetes have increased their
chances of developing type 2 diabetes later on in life. Pre-diabetes is often seen in
people who have blood sugars that at higher levels than normal, but they're not high enough
yet to be diagnosed with diabetes.