Bad news sells, good news doesn’t. Doesn’t affect me either way.
Exactly - “If it bleeds it leads” comes to mind. I try to make it affect me as little as possible.
I feel the best thing that can be done is leverage the ‘bad press’ into individual action. As said elsewhere in this thread, there are many roads to a diabetes diagnosis. For me it was mental stress, overeating, and genetic heritage combining as the present of a ‘Big D’ diagnosis earlier than anyone else in my family.
If by making one of the reasons many people will reach the ‘diabetes tipping point’, overweight caused by overeating of over processed food a less than fashionable thing to do, I’m all for it.
I have better things to do in life than try to help people that insist that they don’t need help (how many morbidly obese people admit grudgingly that they ‘could lose a few pounds’ when it’s more like 100?). Even Marie Osmond lost 50 pounds…according to the TV commercial I just saw.
Negitive stero types and all the other things that the media seem to feed off of is really redicious. Diabetes has been a part 37 years of my 47 years here on earth. Let’s know that YEARS ago I was taught NOT to let anyone think ANYTHING was wrong with me! Now we need to be more open about it and do what Gerri says. I have learned my lesson about not telling. One time quite a few years back I had a really high bs so throwing up and such my family took me to the ER. (Now remember this was like in the latter 70’s maybe earlir 80’s and this WAS a county hospital waaaaaaay out in the county) They gave me Destrose 50/50 to bring me back to “normal” Let’s just say my bs went loads higher. (Nope they didn’t test my bs which is more or less mandatory now) I wound up in the ICU in a hospital about 50 miles from the house. TELL EVERYONE YOU CAN!!! was the lesson I learned from that BAAAAD experince.
Wow. Grim story.