Actor Tom Hanks, 57, revealed his diabetes on television. According to American doctors, his illness was due to his successive regimes during his career. Explanations.
“I went to the doctor and he said to me: You know those high levels of sugar that you have in your blood and have been having since you were 36? Well you graduated, you have type 2 diabetes. ”This is what the famous American actor, Tom Hanks, revealed on Monday evening on the set of the show the Late Show with David Letterman.
Overweight makes diabetes nest
According to the doctors interviewed by the CBS channel, the occurrence of this disease would not be foreign to the cinematographic choices of the interpreter of Forrest Gump, now 57 years old. For them, it is the successive diets undertaken by the actor for some of his films that would have caused his diabetes.
“When an overweight person has been dieting for years, in the end, he often finds himself with a weight on the scale greater than that which was his before his successive slimming cures”, explains Professor Michel Krempf, head of the endocrinology department (metabolic diseases and nutrition) at Nantes University Hospital. And this nutritionist doctor reminded us that, “obviously, being overweight always promotes the onset of T2DM. “
Family history can also play a role
Type 2 diabetes results, in fact, from the association of many predisposing genes, the expression of which depends on environmental factors, the first of which is the excessive consumption of saturated fats and fast sugars, and sedentary lifestyle. . Thus, people with a family history of diabetes, obesity (more particularly in the abdominal area) and who combine a sedentary lifestyle and high calorie diet, have a high risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Moreover, concerning the case of Tom Hanks, researchers are working precisely on this supposed link between successive regimes and T2DM, which is suspected of causing adipose tissue abnormalities. The results of this work are currently awaiting publication.
“You can never be completely cured of type 2 diabetes”
Finally, in his interview, the American actor said that, according to his doctors, his diabetes could disappear if he recovered his high school weight. “ It’s more of a joke, “remarks Professor Michel Krempf,” because T2D never totally disappears. We cannot therefore speak of a cure in a patient. ”
However, losing weight and maintaining a serious diet now allows patients to control their blood sugar. “ Thus, they will be able to stop their treatment, so it is entirely beneficial for them. On the other hand, as soon as they regain weight, the chronic excess of sugar in the blood will return, ”he concludes.
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