There was once a time when, if you were diagnosed with Type 1 Dibetes, you were put on a stict animal fat diet. This was before the invention of insulin. It would prolong your life because fat, (if you didn’t know this) doesn’t raise your blood sugar but does provide you with the best source of energy known to man. I know, you don’t believe me.
And the “myths” about dietary fat causing high cholesterol and heart disease aren’t backed up with any scientific evidence. Not one shred.
Or that high cholesterol causes heart disease, atherosclerosis, and a muriad of other problems. But there is loads and loads of anecdotal evidence that an all meat and fat diet can lead to a loss of the diseases of western civilization. Such as: Cancer, diabetes, atherosclerosis… the list goes on.
Do the research and dig deep. The info is out there if your interested.
Same thing happened to Al Pacino in The Godfather III. Instantaneous seizure like shakes. “Gotta have a candy bar… like maybe… a Snickers. I like those peanuts with the caramel and nugget. Just shove it down my throat and I’ll be better in no time.” Ah… gotta love Hollywood for this stuff.
I worked with a young woman that I considered a brittle or out of control diabetic whichever you want to call them. She used a pump and one day I saw her eating donuts after donuts and I said should you be eating them. She said my doc said I can eat anything I want I just take more insulin to cope with it. She is a chain smoker and heavy drinker on top of that which we all know neither is healthy for you. She had complications during her pregnancy and spent months on bed rest cause of it and I’m sure her disregard for proper diabetic care contributed to that. She is only around 22 and is in no way taking care of herself. Last I knew she was pregnant again. Who will be there for her kids if something happens to her? Or who will teach them how to care for themselves if they turn out to be diabetic? Not a good role model I say but isn’t my life so oh well.
I’ve also been told, “You can’t be a diabetic. You’re too young!” I didn’t know diabetes could tell your age and it would wait til you reached a certain age to show up. Geez I was in my 30’s before I was diagnosed so at 38 I don’t think I’m too young for anything except for maybe dying. rolls eyes
Actually a drink every now and then or even one small one a day isn’t that bad for you. Diabetic or not. I personally don’t drink but that is based on the fact that I’ve not found any alcoholic beverage that I really liked the taste of. Has nothing at all to do with being a diabetic it’s a personal choice for me. Your friends are really off base and sound kind of weird to me. Sorry to say that but they do!
Somehow, they let Al live a long life, dying an old man of natural causes(with his sister giving up her life to give him random shots throughout the day and standing by with emergency glucose.) I guess the story wouldn’t flow if a DIABETIC COMA!!! killed him early on.
lol this is very comical! however the prone to flu and colds one although may never have been scientifically proven it still isnt such a myth as we do have some what of a reduced immune system… do we not? What i think was funny was that when i was put on my injection scheme i was told to inject 18 units of short term per meal on average… … thats what ? 180 grams of carbohydrates? wtf mate i would haave to eat 300 grams of pasta per meal… no wonder i was going hypo so often… to which iwas told going hypo a few times a week was healthy for me?! xxx
I was told by a family member that had a diabetic friend that Diabetes skips a generation so I didn’t have to watch my daughter, but my granddaughters should be tested. Funny because no one on my side of the family, that I know of, has diabetes.
If you keep your blood sugars under 140 mg/dl (7.7mmol/L) and avoid developing vagus nerve neuropathy your immune system should be as good as anyone else’s. Over 200 mg/dl the immune system does start to malfunction. And Kevin Tracy’s work linking the vagus nerve with the operation of the immune response suggests that neuropathy might be another contributor to the tendency of people with diabetes to have poor immune response.
But I really hate it when they say, "Diabetics [fill in the depressing medical factoid here] when it should be "People with poorly controlled blood sugars [whatever it is.] My A1c i is only .1 or .2 higher than my “normal” spouse’s and I don’t get any more infections than he does and my cuts heal like his do too.
he he totally true ;). but im speaking from a not so perfectly controlled bloodsugar perspective as my own. But yeah if u are perfectly controlled ofc there is little or no difference. x
I wish they would just rename type 1 and type 2 completely … be more descriptive about the CAUSES not the treatment or use mysterious terms like “type #” that no one without diabetes understands.
The JDRF is trying to raise money. They’re not going to raise much money if they go on about how needles are so tiny nowadays shots are hardly felt most of the time. I don’t think that one’s a myth, it’s just a strategy they use to get donations.
And hey, fingersticks and pump site changes DO hurt (at least compared to the tiny pen needles), so they’re not totally making that one up about diabetes treatment being painful.
Now books are another story. Books portray diabetes horribly in general. About the only book I’ve read that I thought had an accurate portrayal was Return to Skoki Lake … and it’s written by the mother of a type 1 diabetic.
I think the one that bugs me the most right now is that the pump is a cure, or somehow automatic, or “less work” than shots. That is so far from the truth it makes me really frustrated.
Jennifer…we’ve discussed this. I hope you like the name that duisburgbunny came up with for T1!. Go to Bernard’s site…he has a fun blog concerning the ADA’s reaction to the new name!
Even people who do have diabetes can find the Type 1 and Type 2 names annoying.
Type 1 is autoimmune in origin, but there are some LADA people who still have some living beta cells. And there are people with no beta cell function at all who do not have autoimmune diabetes, since there are some genetic conditions that cause that, as well as diseases of the pancreas.
And though you hear that Type 2s still produce insulin but are insulin resistant, there are people diagnosed with Type 2 who are not insulin resistant. And there are plenty of people who are insulin resistant and have Type 2 who no longer produce insulin.
“Diabetes” is a symptom–high blood sugar. The underlying disorder causing the high blood sugars can be a lot of different things. .
Oh, you take more than 1 shot a day, yours is worse.
Diabetes is caused from eating candy at a young age.
I always love the “skipped generation” one, or even the notion that T1 is hereditary at all.
Someone I know is on the pump because he/she is “brittle” - (heard that one recently)!
Alright seriously, we can’t expect everyone to be experts on our condition, and some people will move their mouths just to hear themselves speak. One thing that shocked me recently was a poll amongst diabetics on the DD website asking if you would rather be T1 or T2. Being T1, I thought this would be a slam dunk. I mean come on, all they have to do is watch their diet and take pills. Whoa I got a rude awakening when almost everyone (including other T1’s) claimed they would prefer T1 so they could have some form of control over their BG’s. I guess even a diabetic can learn from the misconceptions of diabetes.
Kevin
Most of the people who end up with the horrible complications are Type 2s. And it is worth noting that while DCCT showed a huge drop in retinopathy in Type 1s whose A1c was 7% or less, UKPDS which was another huge research project that did the same study with Type 2s found that the 7% A1c brought a much higher rate of retinopathy to Type 2s. (This isn’t what you read in the brief summaries, but it is what the data showed.)
This is probably because type 2s get such terrible treatment and are only put on insulin after literally years if not decades of running blood sugars over 200 all day long. If they have a 7% A1c it is because they have a fasting bg of 180 and go up into the 200-300 range for many hours after every meal.
And Type 2s often are denied the chance to see an endo. Medicare gives them 100 strips a month. And the media keep telling them they caused their own disease because they are fat lazy slobs.
Research has found that doctors don’t start a Type 2 on oral drugs until they have been well over 8% A1c for at least a year. Then they give them drugs that at best will drop them 1% (starting from a typical 10% A1c) while making them nauseated all the time or causing weight gain.
Add tp this that nutritionists often tell people with Type 2 controlling on diet and exercise alone that if they don’t eat at least 50 grams of carbs at each meal (WITHOUT insulin) they will destroy their brains, and that they should eat a daily diet that includes oatmeal, pasta and bananas and you see the problem. The latte dietary advice came from the suggested diabetes diet the Massachusetts Department of Public Health put in the brochure my doctor gave me.
What i think was funny was that when i was put on my injection scheme i was told to inject 18 units of short term per meal on average… … thats what ? 180 grams of carbohydrates? wtf mate 
as my own. But yeah if u are perfectly controlled ofc there is little or no difference. 
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