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How long ago was he diagnosed?
These days, newly diagnosed type 1 diabetics (often kids or teenagers) are not given specific diets to follow, just sensible advice about healthy eating which is not really that different than for anyone else. The trick is to teach them to adjust their insulin dose according to what they've eaten, not the other way round.
It's the same with exercise. As the exercise uses up blood sugar, they don't need as much insulin during exercise. I even know one diabetic cyclist who needed no insulin during his rather hard training sessions. It is a matter of experience to learn how to balance food, insulin dose and exercise intensity to keep his blood sugar levels in the right zone.