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I'd thought it pretty well established that if the mother was well on the path to diabetes - metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia/too damn many carbs - that the infants would be born well along the path themselves. It's an instance of Pottenger's cats - nutritional deficiencies can be cumulative across generations.

This is why we have obese six-month olds, and six-year-olds developing Adult Onset Diabetes.

My guess would be that the problem isn't that these kids are being started out on sold foods, too early, but that they are being started out on carbs, too early. Human breast milk is very high in fat, our "healthy" commercial baby foods are very low in fat and high in sugar.

Gerber Banana Baby Food
Grams fat: 0
Grams protein: 1
Grams carbs: 25
Grams sugar: 19

Gerber Squash Baby Food
Grams fat: 0
Grams protein: 1
Grams carbs: 9
Grams sugar: 5

Gerber Peas Baby Food
Grams fat: 0
Grams protein: 2
Grams carbs: 5
Grams sugar: 2

Gerber Carrots Baby Food
Grams fat: 0
Grams protein: 1
Grams carbs: 9
Grams sugar: 9

A growing body needs fat and protein for muscles and cell membranes. A growing brain needs fat and cholesterol for neural development. Where, on a diet of commercial baby food, is that fat and cholesterol supposed to come from?

I'd thought it pretty well established that if the mother was well on the path to diabetes - metabolic syndrome/insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia/too damn many carbs - that the infants would be born well along the path themselves.

Gestational diabetes is a strong predictor of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Insulin and type 1 diabetes: immune connections

It's a review article. The autoimmunology is a work in progress, and it's quite fascinating. Abnormal glucose metabolism is the main link between two distinct diseases. Clinically, as a general rule, type 1 diabetics are almost never overweight with a body mass index usually under 25, and type 2 diabetics are usually obese with a body mass index usually over 30.

Latent autoimmune diabetes in adults, LADA, is sometimes called type 1.5 diabetes. These patients are first diagnosed after they are more than 25 years old, and they also have auto-antibodies like type 1 diabetics.

Mouse models of type 1 diabetes also have autoreactive T cells.

I’ll specify whether it’s type 1, type 1.5, type 2 or gestational diabetes after the title in the future if I have the room.