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<blockquote data-quote="pavlosn" data-source="post: 653751" data-attributes="member: 22572"><p>No longer care what people say frankly.</p><p></p><p>Did I contribute towards my t2 diagnosis? Possibly. I was not leading the healthiest of lifestyles, sedentary office work, not always making the healthiest dietary choices and I was overweight, but no more so than ninety per cent of the population my age and most of those did not go on to develop diabetes.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps the statins I have had to take for years now because of familial hypercholesterolemia, also contributed. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>Perhaps it was just in my genes. My maternal grandfather was t2 as well.</p><p></p><p>Simple truth is, I do not know and never will know what brought it on.</p><p></p><p>And you know I no longer care, just as I no longer care what others may think brought it on.</p><p></p><p>I also refuse to feel guilty about it.</p><p></p><p>Nothing I think or feel is going to change the fact that I am now a diabetic and that I now have to live within the rules dictated by my condition.</p><p></p><p>As it happens, these rules involve me eating, exercising and adopting an attitude to life that is considerably healthier than the majority of my non- diabetic friends.</p><p></p><p>So, although it is frustrating when the media keep promoting the same negative stereotype for us t2s, I no longer let it bother me because I know it is not correct, at least no in my own case.</p><p></p><p>Even if it was correct, even if we t2s did bring this on to ourselves, so what?</p><p></p><p>What next? Blame cancer victims for possibly being smokers or aids sufferers for possibly being promiscuous?</p><p></p><p>We are all human and none of us lead perfect lived. It just happens that some get away with it, while others are not so fortunate.</p><p></p><p>I have a health condition called diabetes and I have to fight it, but I refuse to accept blame or see this as some kind of deserved punishment when all I may be guilty of is acting in the same manner as the vast majority of the western world population.</p><p></p><p>Pavlos</p><p></p><p>P.S For someone who does not care I've done a pretty good job of ranting about it in the end <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pavlosn, post: 653751, member: 22572"] No longer care what people say frankly. Did I contribute towards my t2 diagnosis? Possibly. I was not leading the healthiest of lifestyles, sedentary office work, not always making the healthiest dietary choices and I was overweight, but no more so than ninety per cent of the population my age and most of those did not go on to develop diabetes. Perhaps the statins I have had to take for years now because of familial hypercholesterolemia, also contributed. Who knows? Perhaps it was just in my genes. My maternal grandfather was t2 as well. Simple truth is, I do not know and never will know what brought it on. And you know I no longer care, just as I no longer care what others may think brought it on. I also refuse to feel guilty about it. Nothing I think or feel is going to change the fact that I am now a diabetic and that I now have to live within the rules dictated by my condition. As it happens, these rules involve me eating, exercising and adopting an attitude to life that is considerably healthier than the majority of my non- diabetic friends. So, although it is frustrating when the media keep promoting the same negative stereotype for us t2s, I no longer let it bother me because I know it is not correct, at least no in my own case. Even if it was correct, even if we t2s did bring this on to ourselves, so what? What next? Blame cancer victims for possibly being smokers or aids sufferers for possibly being promiscuous? We are all human and none of us lead perfect lived. It just happens that some get away with it, while others are not so fortunate. I have a health condition called diabetes and I have to fight it, but I refuse to accept blame or see this as some kind of deserved punishment when all I may be guilty of is acting in the same manner as the vast majority of the western world population. Pavlos P.S For someone who does not care I've done a pretty good job of ranting about it in the end :-) [/QUOTE]
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