Mmm must try spiralina - I am type 1 and a mate told me to drink aloe vera juice as it would help cure my diabetes, she works for a pyramid marketing company which is complete and utter BS !! I feel your pain, it makes me mad too, my mother in law treats me like I am a type 2 and am sick of being told what I can and can't eat, including drinking champagne (only had 2 sips as gets me tipsy anyway !!)
I still cannot stand the upset it causes between type 1's and type 2's simply because we both have a blood glucose disorder however this is where the similarity ends - the differences are endless but it still means we get treated the same. I heard a funny quote the other day about sending a type 1 and type 2 into the woods for a week, the type 2 would be cured but the type 1 would be dead, I think that says it all..
I wish they'd change the name of diabetes too.
'Diabetes' means to "pee like a syphon". Thanks, actually I don't go around peeing like a garden sprinkler because I'm well enough controlled not to.
'Type 1 diabetes' could be relabeled 'autoimmune beta cell disease' or ABCD for short-I'd take that.
'Type 2 diabetes' could be relabeled something like 'insulin resistance disease' -any better suggestions?
I love walking in the woods................ well I did
About once every 3 weeks I get an envelope through the post from my mother filled with these kind of things. In the last year, these newspaper and magazine cuttings have advised me to avoid all fat, eat coconut oil, avoid the sun, mainline VitD3, B12, only ever buy the best supplement brands (also the most expensive, of course), use a mystic pyramid to protect the house from negative magnetic fields (I received one of those for Xmas), re-program my DNA with specially charged vibrational water, imported from the USA, take advanced driving lessons, treat the dogs with herbal flea treatments, and Bio-dynamically... um... to be honest, I didn't read that one.
I'm not!I'm not so sure that there needs to be any further distinction, no matter how you word the 'types' they'll always be confusion among the general public.
At the end of the day we all have diabetes and are fighting the same fight............
I'm sorry but I don't agree. Many come onto the forum for advice and support and many of us do our best to help. If you don't want anyone to question or comment on your choices what do you want from the forum?I think discussions about food choices are fascinating. But it is terribly impolite (and downright wrong) to question or contradict anyone's dietary choices. Throw life- or health-threatening conditions into the mix and I vote for let each of us take care of ourselves.
I'm not so sure that there needs to be any further distinction, no matter how you word the 'types' they'll always be confusion among the general public.
At the end of the day we all have diabetes and are fighting the same fight............
But that's just because you're a bloomin' awkward old scouser!I'm not!
I agree with you but I think the person was referring to family and friends outside the forum. In that context, I agree with them, as I have never asked family and friends for advice on T2, but I do ask the forum, so it's ok that forum members respond.I'm sorry but I don't agree. Many come onto the forum for advice and support and many of us do our best to help. If you don't want anyone to question or comment on your choices what do you want from the forum?
But that's just because you're a bloomin' awkward old scouser!
Robbity
But that's just because you're a bloomin' awkward old scouser!
Robbity
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