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The researchers, all 256 of them, looked at seven diseases: bipolar disorder, coronary-artery disease, Crohn's disease (an inflammation of the gut), hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, type I diabetes (the sort that develops early in life) and type II diabetes (the sort that develops later).
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Writing in the British Medical Journal, the doctors said the findings had the potential to dramatically improve the lives of people with type I diabetes.
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The theory that patients with type I diabetes can eat anything they wish as long as they adjust their insulin intake was first developed in Germany.
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They said further research is needed to see if the findings could apply to all patients with type I diabetes.
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Your type I or juvenile-onset diabetes is due to the islet cells located in your pancreas no longer producing insulin.
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So far in his life, Christensen has lived with Type I diabetes, survived a massive heart attack, endured lymphoma (the same type of cancer that killed his father), and, 18 months ago, suffered a stroke that wiped out his speech.
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Type I diabetes is thought to be an "autoimmune" disease in which the body's own immune system - which is meant to fight foreign threats like bacteria - turns on the cells in a gland called the pancreas.
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