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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 935385" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Lol</p><p>I feel your pain!</p><p>The thing is, you find ignorant people everywhere.</p><p></p><p>If you had MS they would be telling you about the latest wacky macrobiotic diet (I actually know someone who claims to have had his MS in remission for 20 years due to macrobiotic eating, and I don't disbelieve him, I just object to him telling everyone, including me, a T2, that a diet based around brown rice will cure EVERYTHING)</p><p></p><p>And if you had cancer they would be telling you about every Daily Mail miracle cure for the last 10 years.</p><p></p><p>About once every 3 weeks I get an envelope through the post from my mother filled with these kind of things. In the last year, these newspaper and magazine cuttings have advised me to avoid all fat, eat coconut oil, avoid the sun, mainline VitD3, B12, only ever buy the best supplement brands (also the most expensive, of course), use a mystic pyramid to protect the house from negative magnetic fields (I received one of those for Xmas), re-program my DNA with specially charged vibrational water, imported from the USA, take advanced driving lessons, treat the dogs with herbal flea treatments, and Bio-dynamically... um... to be honest, I didn't read that one.</p><p></p><p>It is depressing, but I don't think it is about diabetes, I think it is just people being gaumless in a vaguely wellmeaning 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' way.</p><p></p><p>And in all honesty, some of those suggestions are good (Vit D is making a difference to me, and advanced driving is ALWAYS a good idea), and some are downright silly/offensive. But she's my mum, and I know that she means well. It genuinely distresses her that I have several life long 'issues' about which she can do nothing, but send me newspaper cuttings.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 935385, member: 41816"] Lol I feel your pain! The thing is, you find ignorant people everywhere. If you had MS they would be telling you about the latest wacky macrobiotic diet (I actually know someone who claims to have had his MS in remission for 20 years due to macrobiotic eating, and I don't disbelieve him, I just object to him telling everyone, including me, a T2, that a diet based around brown rice will cure EVERYTHING) And if you had cancer they would be telling you about every Daily Mail miracle cure for the last 10 years. About once every 3 weeks I get an envelope through the post from my mother filled with these kind of things. In the last year, these newspaper and magazine cuttings have advised me to avoid all fat, eat coconut oil, avoid the sun, mainline VitD3, B12, only ever buy the best supplement brands (also the most expensive, of course), use a mystic pyramid to protect the house from negative magnetic fields (I received one of those for Xmas), re-program my DNA with specially charged vibrational water, imported from the USA, take advanced driving lessons, treat the dogs with herbal flea treatments, and Bio-dynamically... um... to be honest, I didn't read that one. It is depressing, but I don't think it is about diabetes, I think it is just people being gaumless in a vaguely wellmeaning 'a little knowledge is a dangerous thing' way. And in all honesty, some of those suggestions are good (Vit D is making a difference to me, and advanced driving is ALWAYS a good idea), and some are downright silly/offensive. But she's my mum, and I know that she means well. It genuinely distresses her that I have several life long 'issues' about which she can do nothing, but send me newspaper cuttings. [/QUOTE]
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