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<blockquote data-quote="pavlosn" data-source="post: 714875" data-attributes="member: 22572"><p>You continue to use words like blame and shame when referring to diabetics. Both these words suggest wrongdoing on behalf of the diabetic.</p><p></p><p>You seem to be making a case for accepting responsibility as being synonimous with accepting blame. I have already pointed out that there is a world of difference between the two.</p><p></p><p>I am glad you were able to take the blame, accept responsibility and turn your lifestyle around. You are a sample of one. Slightly too small a sample to be drawing general conclusions from.</p><p></p><p>As far as I can recall from memory</p><p></p><p>Four out of five newly diagnosed diabetics are overweight or obese. </p><p></p><p>One in three people in the USA are overweight or obese.</p><p></p><p>One in ten people in the USA are diabetics.</p><p></p><p>The above would suggest a relationship between obesity and diabetes, but mot necessarily a cause and effect.</p><p></p><p>It still means that one in five diabetics developed the disease despite not being overweight, and that two in three overweight or obese people did not develop the disease.</p><p></p><p>What is your relationship with diabetes anyway? I was not determine from your profile? I can't help wondering why it seems so important to you to find blame with t2 diabetics.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pavlosn, post: 714875, member: 22572"] You continue to use words like blame and shame when referring to diabetics. Both these words suggest wrongdoing on behalf of the diabetic. You seem to be making a case for accepting responsibility as being synonimous with accepting blame. I have already pointed out that there is a world of difference between the two. I am glad you were able to take the blame, accept responsibility and turn your lifestyle around. You are a sample of one. Slightly too small a sample to be drawing general conclusions from. As far as I can recall from memory Four out of five newly diagnosed diabetics are overweight or obese. One in three people in the USA are overweight or obese. One in ten people in the USA are diabetics. The above would suggest a relationship between obesity and diabetes, but mot necessarily a cause and effect. It still means that one in five diabetics developed the disease despite not being overweight, and that two in three overweight or obese people did not develop the disease. What is your relationship with diabetes anyway? I was not determine from your profile? I can't help wondering why it seems so important to you to find blame with t2 diabetics. [/QUOTE]
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