For anyone interested...
 "The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally" By Dr. Jason Fung |
Posted on 08/16/2021 5:33:37 PM PDT by bitt
How the pandemic laid bare America’s diabetes crisis
COVID-19 has torn a particularly lethal path through the 1 in 10 Americans with diabetes, including many who never caught the virus. That's because when the pandemic hit, people with the chronic disease were already in worse shape than in years.
It took the deadly disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic to expose a deeper, more intractable U.S. public-health crisis: For more than a decade, the world’s richest nation has been losing the battle against diabetes.
Long before the pandemic, Kate Herrin was among the millions of Americans struggling to control their diabetes.
Her problems often stemmed from her government-subsidized medical insurance. Doctors routinely rejected her Medicaid plan, and she repeatedly ran out of the test strips she needed to manage her daily insulin injections. She cycled in and out of emergency rooms with dangerously high blood-sugar levels, or hyperglycemia.
Then COVID-19 hit. Herrin – poor and living alone – rarely left her apartment, ordering fast-food delivery instead of risking the grocery store. She stopped going in for regular lab tests. She had a harder time than ever securing medical supplies. Her health deteriorated further.
On Dec. 15, Herrin and Elicia Heaston, her best friend, were swapping messages on Facebook midday when Herrin abruptly dropped off the conversation. Heaston called Herrin’s phone and got no answer. When a few more hours passed without any word, Heaston and her husband drove from their home in rural West Alexandria, Ohio, to Herrin’s apartment nearby and pounded on the door. No lights were on, but they could hear the television.
Heaston called 911. When firefighters arrived, they found the 42-year-old dead on the bathroom floor. Herrin’s rescue dogs, Honey and Sugar, were lying quietly next to her.
The coroner attributed the heart attack that killed
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Absolutely agree on HFCS...you can’t even find it in Third World countries - but it’s everywhere here!
There is a lot of it in Argentina. Go to Uruguay or Chile, they only have sugar.
“Who on earth consults the government on how to eat? I don’t know any such person. And I’ll bet none of them could even tell you what the current “Food Pyramid” states, either. I sure have no idea, nor do I give a crap...”
You can eat as you wish (until they start to outlaw foods that say are ‘unhealthy’), but regarding your point...you may not give a crap about the Food Pyramid but literally EVERY INSTITUTION in this country is required to follow it (or risk massive liability), and that includes schools, hospitals, prisons, the military...it’s endless. It’s virtually impossible to eat healthy (i.e., keto) if you’re forced to eat in one of those institutions.
Hospitals are hysterical, though. They food pyramid requires carb-loading, so they give diabetic patients the absolute WORST FOOD possible for them This is one sick country.
” For example, many years ago if they took a readings below 140 after fasting overnight; you were OK.
Then it dropped to 130; then to 120 ; now they are using 100. IMHO Using the 100 or lower measurement is going to make plenty of healthy people type 2 diabetics. -Tom “
Thanks Tom, I’m VERY SUSPICIOUS about medical thresholds, and this is a big one, since it means getting ‘patients for life’ if it’s low enough. Likewise, do they have ANY EVIDENCE on which to base blood pressure numbers? I doubt it.
Strange that a diabetic would name her dogs after what makes diabetes worse: Honey and Sugar.
“They don’t try to prevent it and don’t know how.”
Maybe...regardless of what they know, if they go ‘off-label’ in how they treat diabetics, they risk losing their license, their insurance, or their jobs.
We may think of doctors as wise, but they have about as much freedom regarding the treatment of people as Walmart checkout clerks have in setting prices there (and no, I don’t shop there).
“I really believe you need to stop reading things into statements that are not there. Unless you just like throwing strawman arguments out there.”
He deserved your reply, but get used to it, there are always people here like that. It’s like when I say that American teachers suck. I’ll always get a reply or two saying something like “My wife is a good teacher, so stop attacking her!”.
“The food pyramid began when I was in 2nd grade and from then till my senior year in high school I was bombarded with the idea that 6-11 servings of grains per day was essential for good health. Even being told things like eating a giant bowl of pasta was healthier than eating 6oz of steak. Further the most meat that could be on a school lunch was 3oz or about the size of a deck of cards.”
They were right about staying away from sugar, but literally EVERYTHING ELSE is totally backwards in that pyramid.
Ketos to you!
YEA!! Kind of. They got the “C”-word in finally - Carbohydrates (the cause of high blood sugar), but had to add in fat, of which there is ZERO EVIDENCE that it’s a problem with blood sugar (hint, it does affect blood sugar).
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Yup. At least for myself, a low carb diet has helped greatly. I’ve lost 25 pounds on it and unlike the typical diets focusing on fat, I’m never hungry. I eat a lot of eggs, sometimes 6 a day, along with meats, low starch vegetables, and a little fruit.
Part of posting this and explaining it is for illustrative purposes here for others who dont recognize strawman arguments and get sucked into arguing the strawman argument rather than seeing the trickery and exposing the fallacy.
Been here 23+ years and know it goes on, i am refusing to let the fallacy go and point it out so others can see it so they can stop defending themselves against false arguments and things they never said. I want these things to help others who deal with these types of people, because you run into them everywhere. You have to call them on it.
Its the same as rejecting false premises. Any conversation is pointless, much less defending yourself if you dont reject their false premises as soon as they surface.
“I eat a lot of eggs, sometimes 6 a day, along with meats, low starch vegetables, and a little fruit.”
Excellent diet! No wonder you’re healthy. How long did it take them to figure out that the cholesterol in eggs doesn’t make it into the bloodstream? I think 40 years or so.
"The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally" By Dr. Jason Fung |
Thanks...I LOVE your advice and I’ll use it. My hypothetical response will be something like “If you think I said your wife is a crappy teacher, you need to get some help, in a hurry.”
What amazes me is that the poorest are the most likely to be obese. Rich people are the most likely to be thin. These are things that have never happened in all of history. It’s like some ridiculous sci-fi dystopia premise.
It’s hard for me to imagine any scenario where fat poor people would rebel in any meaningful way.
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I feel the same way; and often kid the Doctors about a way to get more patients, like they did when they lowered the diabetes readings to 100 or less to be non diabetic.
For example most humans have a heart beat in the 72 beats per minute or higher range
Some athletic people have lower heart beats in the 60sBPM range. So establish the desired rate to be no higher than 68 BPM.
That will qualify millions of people as having too fast a heart beat and will need some type of treatment to slow down excessive heart beats, that you can recommend. More patients; more money.-Tom
If you want to write a doom and gloom piece why dont you research China. 330 million of its citizens are diabetics. Now there is a real horror story. We taught them to eat that way. Add to this that 9 out 10 of their public water systems are contaminated with industrial waste and we we will soon see a massive wave of deformed infants that the Chinese will find a use for.
Why do you think that they just increased the family size there.
Go watch the 1970’s movie called Soylent Green to learn more.
Keto and fasting reverses Type Two Diabetes.
It is easy, costs nothing and works.
That wasn’t my experience. I only remember eating school lunches on the occasional pizza days, and the rest of the time I exclusively brown-bagged a sandwich, fruit and a cookie. If they ever talked about food pyramids, I was busy passing notes to my friends or doodling in my notebook. ;)
These days, I’m not such a meat fan as when I was younger, but prefer fresh raw fruits and veggies, with a smattering of eggs, cheese, fish and bread, and maybe about the amount of meat the size of a deck of cards a couple times per week (usually just what’s in a soup or sauce).
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