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Exercise and type 1 diabetes with Dr Michael Riddell

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The Importance of Pumps in Type One Diabetes

The ones who are on pumps and CGM are doing the best. But to be honest, their control is really not as good as we'd hoped it would be because of that evolution of technology. And I think it has to do with lifestyle. The liberalization of carbohydrate feeding, simple foods, fast foods, overconsumption of energy dense foods didn't really exist for type one diabetes 50 years ago. This liberalization of food and this relative inactivity has made metabolic control worse. For some reason, it's not made sense to many endocrinologists or patients living with type one.

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