The “The healthier nutrition, the healthier us” project will promote healthy diets for healthy lives to children and teenagers with type 1 diabetes. The objective is to help people with type 1 diabetes stabilise their condition by making minor changes to dietary habits. Additional goals include minimising children and adolescents with obesity through prevention and creating a friendly and supportive environment for those with diabetes by educating them, their families and carers.
My name is Zuza and I’m a medical student from Poland, who has been living with type 1 diabetes for over 7 years now. In 2020 I became a youth leader and advocate representing my country in three different programmes: the CO-CREATE Youth Declaration Task Force project, the Young Leaders in Diabetes project, and the #dedoc voices project. When it comes to the first one, our – the co-creators’ – goal was to prepare a document aimed at politicians and other stakeholders that would outline our views on the obesity problem among children and adolescents. We adopted the declaration in November 2020 and have been promoting it both at online and in-person conferences ever since. Within the framework of the Young Leaders in Diabetes programme, on the other hand, I intend to drive a positive change in the diabetes field by promoting a healthy lifestyle (a healthy diet in particular) to young type 1 diabetics.
