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Ignorance

Jim 007* said:
.why do type 1's always think its a game of top trumps
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That statement is just as bad as the lady's you were complaining about :(and totally uncalled for.
 
dbr10 said:
You often find that the less people know about a subject, the more they are convinced they are right.
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That certainly applies to my highly educated husband who suddenly becomes an instant expert on any topic when he disagrees with me. He is fond of telling me that I know nothing about low carb diets, but when I try to explain why I choose to eat as little sugar as possible and definitely try to avoid foods with added sugar, he comes out with such mind boggling gems as all sugar's the same as it all comes from sugar cane :wideyed::wideyed:, and there's less added sugar in foods so I can eat more of them... It defies all logic!

And he's another one who said "Oh, that's all right then" when I told him I'd been diagnosed with type 2.

It just pisses me off though rather than upsetting me even though it's coming from family rather than strangers. :mad:

Robbity
 
Ignorance never discriminates regardless of type.

All types will suffer they're fair share of ignorant among them !
 
Wel from my perspective this is unlikely to happen to me because a. It IS my fault where I am, b. Yes I am embarrassed as to how I let myself 'go' to that extent and would be quite rightly judged, and c. because I don't tell anyone! - partly as a result of both a. and b.!
Is it as serious? Well my view is I need to address my condition - which does impact on my life, and appreciate our T1 colleagues do the same and need to address it another way - as do some T2s ..... but we can all end up in the same place if we don't manage the condition effectively!
 
Jim 007* said:
You would think that a person giving out nutritional advice should hold some form of qualifications. .lol.....
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I've noticed that especially in certain fields, people will happily give you misleading advices. One of this is because when you grow you'll find a sad truth, as said by Dark Helmet...

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A lot of people feel self-fulfilled if they could act as experts, especially if they've a claque following 'em.
In some cases they've also some economical benefit on this, say they're are trying to sell some diet food or diet pills.

I've got a lot of useful informations reading on books and with a lot of attention from websites, and being really critical on it. One thing I know for sure is that, despite it's not a rare disease, diabetes and the related problems it's not really known by the population in general, maybe because it's not very advertised and few awareness campaigns are made. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis for instance has 3.9 cases per 100,000 persons in the U.S, while diabetics in U.S. in 2012 were 21 millions, about 10% of the population. But You'll easy find a fund raising campaign and testimonials talking about ALS rather than talking about diabetes and how to control and delay the onset.
I know the ALS it's a deadly disease, so some awareness is necessary, but seems to me that some neuropathies caused by diabetes are quite deadly too.
I've another "rare" condition that afflicts, 50 to 230 per 100,000 population, and luckily for me in a bland form, almost nobody knows it, even MDs and GPs don't know very much about it. I could accept it especially because it's not a deadly condition and it's relatively manageable.
But if the main thing to do for diabetes control, especially for T2 but of course and for T1, is to eat healthy and have an healthy lifestyle. This will help on other high risk conditions, say heart failures, coronary diseases, strokes and some types of cancer.
Why there aren't awareness campaign on healthy diet and lifestyle?

Why on newspaper the diet you normally read are crazy thing without sense or diets that require to buy some expensive items? Why making physical activity on newspaper normally implies to buy some expensive gear or gadget of go on some costly gym and make weird things?

I've digressed and I've written a long rant, sorry, but this is something that itches me.
 
I don't think they are ignorant per say.

Why would you educate yourself on something that does not effect you.

How many of us looked up diabetes before we were diagnosed with it.

I could call you ignorant for not know what negative splits are in running. Which of course is not true.

People are normally only interested in things that effect them and there's.
 
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