What is the percentage of Americans overweight or obese?
I don’t buy it. I’m no doctor, but 50%??? C’mon, now. 160 MILLION people diagnosed or undiagnosed?
Let’s just say that I’m skeptical...
One of my lady friends got a high read and her doctor put her on diabetic meds....Then she really got sick.
The readings were all over the place....
The doctor took her off the meds....and her system was reading just fine.
Another avoidable “disability” for these people to hide behind. Get ‘em some free dialysis, and a handicap sticker for the car.
Over 1 million years of evolution, our ancestors walked many miles every day to find food. And they had to chase fast galloping herbivores to hunt for food.
Now our exercise is limited to walking to the parking lot to get into the car, for 50% of Americans.
Here is what I am doing to keep my blood sugar under control: Eating only whole grain bread, 3 servings of green vegetables and 2 servings of protein (eggs, chicken, turkey, pork sausage), 2 fresh fruits, yogurt, nuts and lentils. Avoiding potatoes, white rice, any bread which is not whole grain, fruit juices, all sweets. My dessert is fancy Majdul dates and plump prunes with half and half. Especially avoiding anything which has high fructose corn syrup.
Or they’ve adjusted the numbers making more and more fall into that category to sell more prescriptions. These days, anyone over 125 pounds is obese.
How many of those people are taking anti-cholesterol drugs? You have a 67% greater chance of diabetes. How many are on BP drugs?? Many of them elevate blood sugar. How many are on Thyroid meds? Again it can raise blood sugars. If you take all three - guess what.
They are lying that it is all diet etc. They are giving it to us in medications.
If our government was serious about blood sugar it would end sugar subsidies allowing cost to be more reasonable and sugar again assume it's rightful place in food & beverage processing and manufacturing rather than corn syrup.
Try and find a processed food - ANY processed food - that doesn’t have sugar in it.
For crying out loud, SALT has sugar in it.
Give me the ability to change the definitions a little( like they have) and I can prove that 90% of Americans are paranoid schizophrenics
I was a type 2 diabetic for years. Diagnosed when I was still on Active Duty.
I got sicker and sicker. Nothing worked—not drugs, not insulin, not a carb-less diet.
It took a very good endocrinologist to figure out I was a type 1. Then and only then did I get the right treatment, which, surprisingly, still involves insulin, but the key is WHEN to take it. A carb goes in, insulin follows.
My advice to others is to always get a second opinion, and ask the doctor to look beyond the generally prevailing attitude, especially when treatment doesn’t seem to work well..
Hmmmm, not buying it.
Everyone should get tested.
I was probably diabetic for 10 years before I went to a another doctor who was actually listening to me instead of just attributing all my complaints to getting older.
I had been giving my previous doctor diabetic symptoms for a good ten years.
The damage to my nervous system was already done by then.
It’s almost all Type 2 diabetes, which is caused by poor diet, obesity and a lack of exercise.
Liars!!
Diabetes is also genetically passed. My mother was diagnosed with Diabetes as a juvenile, after a bout with polio, and it killed her at 56 years old.
Diabetes is far more devastating than Aids, and how much do we spend for research on each.
Make me sick to think about it.
Yeah, right. I remember the “study” that said 33% of all Americans were homosexual. People are so gullible.