• GoodOleAmerika@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Yes and no for US. We have folks lining up for ice cream at Walmart and jabbing insulin with it. Diabetes is a diet disease (T2). My A1C was north of 15 when diagnosed. I did go the diet route and managed it before 5.7 for 4 years and now finally it’s creeping up to 5.9. It’s a chronic disease and will get worse with time.

    Other issue I find is it is expensive to eat healthy in US. So either we need to provide cheaper healthier option or we need to provide insulin. We cannot take them both away.

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      1 month ago

      it is expensive to eat healthy in US

      Expensive and inconvenient.

      If you’re not cooking for yourself, 95%+ of what’s available for “low effort” is sugar coated salty fat bombs. That’s what “free market” competition in restaurants gets you: hyper-attractive foods.

    • Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Diabetes is a diet disease

      Poor diet can increase likelihood of developing T2, and good diet can help manage, but diet does not prevent onset of T2. Also prevalence of gestational diabetes is often a precursor to T2 later in life even when diet and lifestyle otherwise “healthy”.

      Diabetes is sometimes a diet disease, good diet is not a panacea

  • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Ahh yes, the starvation diet is back on the menu for type 1’s, boys!

    I recall back in the day the longest anyone lived on the starvation diet before insulin developed was a year or 2.

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      1 month ago

      depends on how far along typ1 diabetes damages the iselt cells in the pancreas. the diet most likely wont work if you cant produce insulin anymore, especially you can get unreliable walmart reliant otc isulin. theres a slow decline insulin production as your islet beta cells get destroyed.

      one of the rare ways around it if someone is on immunosuppressants all the time from organ transplant.

      • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world
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        Yeaaah, between an organ transplant and taking immunosuppressant the rest of my life, or just continuing to take insulin, I think I’ll take insulin.

  • Morgan @lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    So many factors involved in controlling A1C. Not just your diet but lifestyle, exercise, access to health care and healthy inexpensive food.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 month ago

    Challenge Accepted.

    Simpsons TV show still where Lisa is holding a book seemingly titled “How to cook humans”

    We’ll get insurers and Medicaid to fully cover diabetes supplies in no time.

  • rayyy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    To be fair, our western diet of mainly cheap non-nutritive carbs suck. America needs desperately to change their diet but when Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her. JFK jr, on the other hand is totally nuts.
    It must have been quit a challenge to find the most incompetent losers to fill the failed, fucked-up, fat, fascist, felon’s cabinet.

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      Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her.

      Part of her plan would have banned Cheerios in schools because of added salt. That was one of the things getting pushback.

      Her initiative to get added sugars listed on nutrition labels had very broad support.

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      1 month ago

      To be fair

      Well there’s your problem. Never hand it to fascists (or grifters, or cult leaders, etc. — basically any kind of bad faith actors).

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      There’s no need to be fair here. Insulin is absolutely essential for diabetics, and the head of the FDA trying to proclaim that cooking classes are a viable alternative is nonsense. For type 1 diabetics, no amount of healthy eating is going to get their body to produce insulin. For type 2 diabetics, it is possible to eventually get to a point where you can be stable without insulin, but not for everybody and not right away. Insulin treatment is the only way to survive with diabetes for an extended period of time, and the focus needs to be on ensuring that insulin is both affordable and accessible.

      Yes, there are things to improve in our food supply, but don’t let that distract from how egregiously insane his comments are about diabetes.

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    You know, during ww2 when Britain enact very harsh rationing the rate of diabetes and heart disease did drop greatly. Because many fatty staples and meat were hard to come by and sugar was nearly nonexistent.

    But you know what was instrumental in increasing life expectancy by almost 10 years almost overnight? The NHS after the war. Even when rationing fully ended in the late 50s life expectancy continued to be much higher despite all the previously hard to get stuff becoming readily available again.

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    1 month ago

    So what are they trying to hide? That putin trashed donald lately? The bonds market going bad? That the life saving magic tariffs got rolled back?

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    His blood sugar is high! Quickly!

    drags his spazzing body to the nearest cooking class

    There we go!

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      Not to be pedantic, but high blood sugar symptoms are more like lethargy, constant thirst, frequent urination, irritability, and at a certain point, straight to coma as the blood turns too acidic (DKA). Nothing as exciting as seizures in there.

      Only because having been around a few people who were diagnosed as adults, and these very basic symptoms were overlooked, so the more people aware of them, hopefully the less people that need to visit the ICU for DKA

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    1 month ago

    This is why you shouldn’t touch any new drugs and any produce from America. Ever since Trump it’s actually scary to use now unregulated American products.