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<blockquote data-quote="serenity648" data-source="post: 1119212"><p>one of my uncles got lung cancer. He was a smoker from the age of 12. He stopped smoking when all the stuff came out about smoking and lung cancer. But he still died of it. He smoked at a time when smoking was actively encouraged, even by doctors. Should he then be blamed for smoking and dying of lung cancer? No. Yet he was blamed by many for causing his own cancer.</p><p></p><p>I am seeing the same vilification of the overweight in the media. If type 2 diabetes is triggered by carbs in those susceptible to diabetes, should they be blamed for not having prior knowledge and being actively encouraged by the medical profession to do the very thing which has led to their diagnosis and continuing problems? I dont think so. And yet that is what we are seeing and hearing, time after time, hence the upset the BBC article has caused to us today, and continues to cause us.</p><p></p><p>I believe that type 2 is "cured" by weight loss simply because of the reduction in carbs that such dieting brings, and thus the diabetes recurs when the lower carbing diet is discarded after being told they are "cured".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="serenity648, post: 1119212"] one of my uncles got lung cancer. He was a smoker from the age of 12. He stopped smoking when all the stuff came out about smoking and lung cancer. But he still died of it. He smoked at a time when smoking was actively encouraged, even by doctors. Should he then be blamed for smoking and dying of lung cancer? No. Yet he was blamed by many for causing his own cancer. I am seeing the same vilification of the overweight in the media. If type 2 diabetes is triggered by carbs in those susceptible to diabetes, should they be blamed for not having prior knowledge and being actively encouraged by the medical profession to do the very thing which has led to their diagnosis and continuing problems? I dont think so. And yet that is what we are seeing and hearing, time after time, hence the upset the BBC article has caused to us today, and continues to cause us. I believe that type 2 is "cured" by weight loss simply because of the reduction in carbs that such dieting brings, and thus the diabetes recurs when the lower carbing diet is discarded after being told they are "cured". [/QUOTE]
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