If you see this in time - come and join in on the discussion in just 1/2 an hour with Mark Clifford (Global Diabetic
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/globaldiabeticawareness/2010/02/05/global-diabetic-awareness-presents-diabetic-life-won-talk-radio Awareness Radio Network) and a few others (moi <lol>) as we talk about Oprah’s show on the telly yesterday - here’s the link to join …
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I don’t watch daytime TV that often as I’m a working stiff, but yesterday I recorded the Oprah show - which was all about diabetes. I had read during the week from other PWD bloggers that they were abit disgruntled that probably the show would dwell on Type 2 diabetes. That doesn’t bother me, as I still
clump all the different versions of diabetes as being one, we all are
having to deal with living with diabetes whether it be with just
pills/diet/exercise/insulin. Below is a comment that I posted at one
of the many diabetic forums I belong to which I find seemed to be
highly critical of how Oprah / Dr. Oz brought it to the public viewers
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found it pretty good. You have to remember, it’s aimed at the average
viewer, who may not have much knowledge of diabetes, and what they have
is usually based on incorrect info (e.g. you get it if you’re fat,
yadda, yadda, yadda). Because of it only being an hour show (with LOTS
of ads - not used to day time telly) - they could only really cover the
basics, but I personally felt the info put forth was well done. I
think it helped my husband understand about what sugar in our systems
does to us with the video that Dr. Oz showed on how the food breaks
down in our bodies. Seeing how the “shards of glass” aka “sugar” go
thru’ our blood vessels if it’s not been converted correctly due to our
pancreas not squelching out the juice made me cringe (I will never look
a broken glass in the same way again). It didn’t help that I was
sitting down nibbiling on cookies and an espresso (with sugar) for my
evening snack. Yes, I had taken insulin to cover the carbs aka sugar -
so hopefully less “shards of glass” will enter into my blood stream,
but still I felt abit uneasy.
To read more - go to this link - please feel free to either comment here or at the website - http://www.diabetes1.org/blogs/Annas_Blog/Americas_The_Worlds_Silent_Killer
(sorry about the post looking strange - first time this has ever happened to me here at Tudiabetes - but I can’t seem to correct why it looks like this - so having to post it this way for now - I am such a perfectionist aren’t I?)