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<blockquote data-quote="Flakey Bake" data-source="post: 385667" data-attributes="member: 71327"><p>Hi,</p><p>I am feeling a bit sensitive about diabetes at the moment. I was diagnosed at just age 37 with type 2. Yes I was overweight, but active, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat high sat.fat diet (just low fat and "healthy carbs" which I now know is stuffed with sugar). I took my medication, lost the weight. I sure as hell didn't reverse my diabetes, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I will probably be starting insulin in the next few weeks. I know I have to continue to be positive and work at it to maintain my health. When I heard that report and Prof Craig Currie's comment, I swing from massive guilt to really really mad and spiralled into a big downer about my diabetes. I never write complaints normally, but this was mine to the bbc:</p><p></p><p>You do not eat your way to type 2 diabetes. It is a genetically inherited disease FACT! Yes weight/lifestyle can play a role in disease development particularly the age of disease onset. And yes, you can improve sugar control by losing excess weight. The healthy diet message is important, but is not the whole storey.</p><p> Every time I open BBC news, there is some new report inferring that if you are fat, you will get diabetes and have your feet amputated. Prof Craig Currie's comment calling the British a nation of "fat lazy porkers" is not helpful. His insinuation that type 2 diabetics bring the disease upon themselves and the MP's comment that we should have to pay for our illnesses is offensive. Have you any idea the despair and hopeless comments like these cause. Dealing with either type of diabetes is a lifelong battle fought on a daily basis; it requires a great deal of positive thought, heaping guilt and shame upon the type 2 diabetics is dangerous. It also is proving to be very divisive between type 1 and 2 communities; type 1 diabetics don't want to be associated with fat lazy porkers like me. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune event (no blame attached). Type 2 diabetes is caused by underlying genetic factors; no blame should be attached. Until a reporting is based upon fact rather than this fattist prejudice, it seems like type 2 diabetics are to be the new lepers of society. Please see <a href="http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes" target="_blank">http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes</a>. Ps. Many type 2s have never been fat!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Flakey Bake, post: 385667, member: 71327"] Hi, I am feeling a bit sensitive about diabetes at the moment. I was diagnosed at just age 37 with type 2. Yes I was overweight, but active, didn't drink, didn't smoke, didn't eat high sat.fat diet (just low fat and "healthy carbs" which I now know is stuffed with sugar). I took my medication, lost the weight. I sure as hell didn't reverse my diabetes, it just keeps getting worse and worse. I will probably be starting insulin in the next few weeks. I know I have to continue to be positive and work at it to maintain my health. When I heard that report and Prof Craig Currie's comment, I swing from massive guilt to really really mad and spiralled into a big downer about my diabetes. I never write complaints normally, but this was mine to the bbc: You do not eat your way to type 2 diabetes. It is a genetically inherited disease FACT! Yes weight/lifestyle can play a role in disease development particularly the age of disease onset. And yes, you can improve sugar control by losing excess weight. The healthy diet message is important, but is not the whole storey. Every time I open BBC news, there is some new report inferring that if you are fat, you will get diabetes and have your feet amputated. Prof Craig Currie's comment calling the British a nation of "fat lazy porkers" is not helpful. His insinuation that type 2 diabetics bring the disease upon themselves and the MP's comment that we should have to pay for our illnesses is offensive. Have you any idea the despair and hopeless comments like these cause. Dealing with either type of diabetes is a lifelong battle fought on a daily basis; it requires a great deal of positive thought, heaping guilt and shame upon the type 2 diabetics is dangerous. It also is proving to be very divisive between type 1 and 2 communities; type 1 diabetics don't want to be associated with fat lazy porkers like me. Type 1 diabetes is caused by an autoimmune event (no blame attached). Type 2 diabetes is caused by underlying genetic factors; no blame should be attached. Until a reporting is based upon fact rather than this fattist prejudice, it seems like type 2 diabetics are to be the new lepers of society. Please see [url=http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes]http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes[/url]. Ps. Many type 2s have never been fat! [/QUOTE]
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