“More and more young people are affected”

How to decipher a food label? What foods should you choose to compose a balanced meal? What diet should you adopt? Here is a small sample of the many questions that occupied the dieticians at the Saumur hospital center, Friday, November 29, on the occasion of a diabetes prevention day. Food, as is often the case, finds itself at the heart of a problem that concerns more and more people, and earlier and earlier.

Two types of diabetes

There are two forms of diabetes. Type 1, present especially in children, is linked to a lack of insulin secretion by the pancreas. You can be born with it or develop it later presents Margot Grosse, one of the four women who make up the dietary department of the Saumur CH. There is often a genetic, hereditary aspect. Type 2 diabetes may be developed… Often,…