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<blockquote data-quote="Humma" data-source="post: 1313509" data-attributes="member: 198890"><p>One reason and one reason only ££££££££££££££££££$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$`s </p><p>People in the diabetes community, desperate for a cure, sometimes express considerable paranoia about the goals of the pharmaceutical industry.After all, with $132 billion expended each year for diabetes care in the United States alone, the manufacturers of drugs and diabetes products make serious money off the disease. Do they, then, have any incentive to find a cure for it?Think about it: diabetes has now reached “epidemic” proportions and is a lifelong disease. This makes it, in the words of DiabetesinControl.com publisher Steven Freed, the “perfect disease.”</p><p>For the pharmaceutical industry, that is. 49 years ive been waiting for a cure the only difference for me being instead of injecting insulin with a glass syringe and an all steel needle and having to boil sterilize them i now use a pen and the great help of a blood meter instead of measuring urine and water into a test tube and adding a caustic soda tablet and hoping to hell it would turn blue and not the dreaded orange...Still with all that and a decent diet and plenty of exercise ive made it to 62 yeras old and not one single complication [ATTACH=full]21110[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Humma, post: 1313509, member: 198890"] One reason and one reason only ££££££££££££££££££$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$`s People in the diabetes community, desperate for a cure, sometimes express considerable paranoia about the goals of the pharmaceutical industry.After all, with $132 billion expended each year for diabetes care in the United States alone, the manufacturers of drugs and diabetes products make serious money off the disease. Do they, then, have any incentive to find a cure for it?Think about it: diabetes has now reached “epidemic” proportions and is a lifelong disease. This makes it, in the words of DiabetesinControl.com publisher Steven Freed, the “perfect disease.” For the pharmaceutical industry, that is. 49 years ive been waiting for a cure the only difference for me being instead of injecting insulin with a glass syringe and an all steel needle and having to boil sterilize them i now use a pen and the great help of a blood meter instead of measuring urine and water into a test tube and adding a caustic soda tablet and hoping to hell it would turn blue and not the dreaded orange...Still with all that and a decent diet and plenty of exercise ive made it to 62 yeras old and not one single complication [ATTACH=full]21110[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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