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<blockquote data-quote="Useless Pretty Boy" data-source="post: 119596" data-attributes="member: 20433"><p>All that means is that 4 out of 5 type2s are an unhealthy weight. And that of all the people of an unhealthy weight in the country, 1 in 5 have pancreatic systems that have already been put under too much pressure.</p><p></p><p>I don't quite see what you're getting at. Are you saying that type2 diabetes is definitely not related to weight because 4 out of 5 overweight people don't have type2? Is it the just a horrible coincidence that 4 out of 5 type2s ARE an unhealthy weight?</p><p></p><p>Nobody's saying that all type2 diabetics are slobs, or that to be a slob is to be diabetic. You might not be, but the next four people sitting next to you in your clinic are at least overweight, if not seriously unhealthy. Myself? I was the healthiest I've ever been the summer before I was diagnosed. But BANG! There it is.</p><p></p><p>If the two diseases have such different causes and such different rates of progress; If type 2 can be explained in the majority of cases and type 1 cannot; and if all they have in common are symptoms, why shouldn't they be given different names?</p><p></p><p>Also, I'd like to put forth the issue that if everyone on this forum stopped taking their meds, all of the type 1 diabetics would be dead in a month - 6 weeks. How many of the type2s would be? No matter what way you cut it, it's not as serious a disease. I've never really come accross a type2 who has properly apprecaited that fact.</p><p></p><p>Put it this way, I'd trade my disease for yours. In a heartbeat. That says to me that they're really not the same. So why shouldn't they have a different name?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Useless Pretty Boy, post: 119596, member: 20433"] All that means is that 4 out of 5 type2s are an unhealthy weight. And that of all the people of an unhealthy weight in the country, 1 in 5 have pancreatic systems that have already been put under too much pressure. I don't quite see what you're getting at. Are you saying that type2 diabetes is definitely not related to weight because 4 out of 5 overweight people don't have type2? Is it the just a horrible coincidence that 4 out of 5 type2s ARE an unhealthy weight? Nobody's saying that all type2 diabetics are slobs, or that to be a slob is to be diabetic. You might not be, but the next four people sitting next to you in your clinic are at least overweight, if not seriously unhealthy. Myself? I was the healthiest I've ever been the summer before I was diagnosed. But BANG! There it is. If the two diseases have such different causes and such different rates of progress; If type 2 can be explained in the majority of cases and type 1 cannot; and if all they have in common are symptoms, why shouldn't they be given different names? Also, I'd like to put forth the issue that if everyone on this forum stopped taking their meds, all of the type 1 diabetics would be dead in a month - 6 weeks. How many of the type2s would be? No matter what way you cut it, it's not as serious a disease. I've never really come accross a type2 who has properly apprecaited that fact. Put it this way, I'd trade my disease for yours. In a heartbeat. That says to me that they're really not the same. So why shouldn't they have a different name? [/QUOTE]
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