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<blockquote data-quote="aimee11" data-source="post: 674005" data-attributes="member: 136952"><p>numerous news items about research show that faulty genes are the cause of both obesity and diabetes two</p><p></p><p>it is time to stop blaming the poor sick person </p><p></p><p>it was only once AIDS sufferers stopped being stigmatized for causing their illness that treatments and research was done</p><p></p><p>it is time to stop saying that diabetes type two is a lifestyle disease because it is not.</p><p></p><p>it is much more likely that we became fat because our genes are faulty and not the other way round</p><p></p><p>if we stop stigmatizing diabetes type two sufferers doctors will start testing thin people for the disease and that will save lives </p><p></p><p>thin people are getting diabetes two possibly at the same rate as fat people - think Halle Berry and Tom Hanks and tennis star Billie Jean King who were never known for being fat yet have the disease</p><p></p><p>I wish that all medical professionals and the media would stop stigmatizing our illness as being self caused so that real research and understanding can follow and breakthrough treatments discovered</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aimee11, post: 674005, member: 136952"] numerous news items about research show that faulty genes are the cause of both obesity and diabetes two it is time to stop blaming the poor sick person it was only once AIDS sufferers stopped being stigmatized for causing their illness that treatments and research was done it is time to stop saying that diabetes type two is a lifestyle disease because it is not. it is much more likely that we became fat because our genes are faulty and not the other way round if we stop stigmatizing diabetes type two sufferers doctors will start testing thin people for the disease and that will save lives thin people are getting diabetes two possibly at the same rate as fat people - think Halle Berry and Tom Hanks and tennis star Billie Jean King who were never known for being fat yet have the disease I wish that all medical professionals and the media would stop stigmatizing our illness as being self caused so that real research and understanding can follow and breakthrough treatments discovered [/QUOTE]
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