Halle Berry - Berry Beating Diabetes

30 October 2007
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Berry Beating Diabetes

Pregnant Halle Berry is winning her battle with diabetes, thanks to a healthy diet and good living.
The actress was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes after she passed out while shooting a TV show called Living Dolls when she first arrived in Hollywood.
But the disease has now dropped to Type 2 diabetes because Berry is no longer "insulin dependent".
She says, "I've managed to ween myself off insulin, so now I like to put myself in the Type 2 category."

NOTE: Reports of Halle Berrys  type 1 diabetes diagnosis were inaccurate. This has since been corrected, Ms. Berry is a type 2 diabetic. Type 1 diabetes is a serious incurable disease.


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1st July 2010 04:00

Rekarb56     (1)

She is a Ketosis Prone Type 2 Diabetic. This is a common type of diabetes amongst people of color in this country. There are an estimated 1,000,000 of them in the US alone. They present with acute onset like type 1 but after withdrawal of insulin will actually be type 2. Here’s a blog on it: ketosisprone.blogspot.com/

4th January 2009 20:00

cr     (1)

I was also diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 5 years ago when I was 27; meaning they found my antigad test positive for immune distruction of my insulin producing cells. I recently switched to a diet of mostly just protein and veggis (similar to how Hallie Berry eats) and I am also almost completely without the need for insulin. I exercise alot as well. I think what Hallie Berry and I have is diagnosed as type 1, but we have not completely lost all of our insulin. I am working very hard to keep the little I still have. All cases are different, but I understand how heartbreaking it is to hear something that sounds impossible. Maybe it will provide some solace to you that when I read this article, it inspired me to go back to the way I was eating when I was first diagnosed with diabetes and did not take insulin. Now I am again almost without a need for it. All my best to you all, and I wish you a happy healthy new year!

4th October 2008 22:00

Type 1 dad     (1)

And here we are nearly 1 year later, and the story still is posted without any correction or warning about the incorrect information given.Shame on you all at contact music comI suggest a disclaimer of some sort. This kind of miss-information is damaging to all of those who actually do have type 1 and all of the children out there saving pennies in their piggy banks to donate to try to really find a cure.How dare you?Dad of a real type 1 (IDDM Type 1 diagnosed 2/9/04)

4th December 2007 20:00

krystal     (1)

she was obviously mis diagnosed to begin with, I have been type 1 for 36 years and you don't just stop needing your insulin, if you are truly type I, type 2's are often insulin resistant and can change this with diet and healthier living, type 1's just never produce any insulin to be resistant too, she is making herself look ignorant on the subject of diabetes

14th November 2007 20:00

Tom Neal     (1)

Un-berry-vable!!!! This has to be a joke, right? No person with Type ! diabetes would ever say such a stupid, ill-informed thing. Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are not different stages of the same disease ... they're two different diseases. To a Type 1 diabetic, "weening" yourself off insulin would be like weening yourself off oxygen. It is not a reversible disease. There is no cure. When our daughter (now 12) was diagnosed with Type 1, we referenced Halle Berry as a role model for her ... someone famous who was living with the disease and thriving. We sent Ms. Berry a letter back then (2-1/2 years ago) asking her for a photo for our daughter. Thought it a little odd that she did not respond to a fellow Type 1 girl, newly diagnosed. Too busy? Too big? Too protected by her staff? Or, maybe just too dumb to understand? Seriously, I hope this news story is wrong and Ms. Berry never said such a thing.

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