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<blockquote data-quote="Honeyend" data-source="post: 1642780" data-attributes="member: 430576"><p>I think its unhelpful to blame anyone for their disease, it makes people have a them and us attitude, when we are all us and apart from the very lucky, we are all susceptible to something.</p><p>If we think about tolerance to things, I have known people drink relatively little alcohol and end up with liver disease and had the stigma of being thought a alcoholic, or the families like mine that heart disease is the cause of most of the illness and death. Working down the pit and smoking didn't help, but everyone did it then,like snacking and eating carbs to excess has become the norm now.</p><p> I used to do some catering and carbohydrate is cheap and makes up the largest proportion the most of the meals. Its easy to store, an idiot can prepare it and has a high profit margin. Take away the fries/chips/pasta/bread from a meal, look at it on the plate and it would be very hard for most food outlets to justify their prices, but all of those ingredients cost pennies. So carbohydrate is pushed at people at every opportunity, we tend to eat on the go now and it really hard to go into a food outlet and not eat carbs.</p><p> I will be honest I never realised how difficult it was to find the carb content of something, its usually in the smallest letters ever on the back of the packet, but gluten free is usually in big letters across the front. I agree that there is a really poor understanding of 'sugar' in the diet. In the old days urine used to be tasted to test for sugar, we dipstick for glucose, so |I suppose it was a simplification that sugar was the problem when really the excess sugar was an end product of the carbohydrate that was eaten.</p><p> So a bit like smoking we think we may have a better understanding why people get Type 2, just remember is took decades for the cigarette companies to admit that smoking caused health problems and death, and you can still buy cigs. There is so much money involved that health promoters, governments, want to be sure, so they do not get sued, so things will not change quickly and they are less likely to get sued by us, than the big multinationals.</p><p> I would suggest that if you feel uncomfortable telling people you have diabetes just tell them you have decided to lose weight and have chosen this diet. Your health really is not their business, unless they need to know. Say your allergic to cereals, that's fashionable.</p><p> I just get really cross when people are made to feel helpless about what ever illness they have, in my experience self management is often far better the HCP management.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Honeyend, post: 1642780, member: 430576"] I think its unhelpful to blame anyone for their disease, it makes people have a them and us attitude, when we are all us and apart from the very lucky, we are all susceptible to something. If we think about tolerance to things, I have known people drink relatively little alcohol and end up with liver disease and had the stigma of being thought a alcoholic, or the families like mine that heart disease is the cause of most of the illness and death. Working down the pit and smoking didn't help, but everyone did it then,like snacking and eating carbs to excess has become the norm now. I used to do some catering and carbohydrate is cheap and makes up the largest proportion the most of the meals. Its easy to store, an idiot can prepare it and has a high profit margin. Take away the fries/chips/pasta/bread from a meal, look at it on the plate and it would be very hard for most food outlets to justify their prices, but all of those ingredients cost pennies. So carbohydrate is pushed at people at every opportunity, we tend to eat on the go now and it really hard to go into a food outlet and not eat carbs. I will be honest I never realised how difficult it was to find the carb content of something, its usually in the smallest letters ever on the back of the packet, but gluten free is usually in big letters across the front. I agree that there is a really poor understanding of 'sugar' in the diet. In the old days urine used to be tasted to test for sugar, we dipstick for glucose, so |I suppose it was a simplification that sugar was the problem when really the excess sugar was an end product of the carbohydrate that was eaten. So a bit like smoking we think we may have a better understanding why people get Type 2, just remember is took decades for the cigarette companies to admit that smoking caused health problems and death, and you can still buy cigs. There is so much money involved that health promoters, governments, want to be sure, so they do not get sued, so things will not change quickly and they are less likely to get sued by us, than the big multinationals. I would suggest that if you feel uncomfortable telling people you have diabetes just tell them you have decided to lose weight and have chosen this diet. Your health really is not their business, unless they need to know. Say your allergic to cereals, that's fashionable. I just get really cross when people are made to feel helpless about what ever illness they have, in my experience self management is often far better the HCP management. [/QUOTE]
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