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Herschel Walker Says People Worried About High Insulin Costs Should Just 'Eat Right'
Huff Po ^ | 10/15/22 | Igor Bobic

Posted on 10/15/2022 6:46:35 AM PDT by Lower Deck

Herschel Walker, the GOP nominee for a U.S. Senate seat in Georgia, said people who are worried about the high cost of insulin should “eat right” in his only debate against Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) on Friday.

During an exchange about the economy and the high cost of living, Warnock touted his work passing legislation lowering prescription drug prices, including a $35 cap on monthly insulin costs. He noted that Walker had opposed the law, which is called the Inflation Reduction Act.

Walker responded by saying the Inflation Reduction Act had not reduced inflation. Then he argued that people who need insulin should think about eating better.

“I believe in reducing insulin but at the same time, you gotta eat right. I know many people that’s on insulin. Unless you’re eating right, insulin is doing you no good. So you have to get food prices down and you gotta get gas down so you can go get insulin,” the GOP candidate said.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: chat; diabetes; fakenews; georgia; herschelwalker; huffingtonpost; insulin; lowerdeckasshole; notnews; senate; trumpendorsed
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To: lastchance

I don’t believe in voting for idiots. Period. I grew weary of hold my nose voting. If I don’t like either candidate, I don’t vote for them. I’m settling for dog crap cause of the letter after their name.


181 posted on 10/15/2022 1:37:17 PM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: RedMonqey

Not uneducated at all. You might find this interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWhukeLjQlo


182 posted on 10/15/2022 1:40:12 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Lower Deck

That’s not what he said. What he said is that before insulin will do any good you’ve got to eat right and with the cost of food at these levels that difficult to do.


183 posted on 10/15/2022 2:23:46 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Lower Deck

This was laudable debate performance?

Not hardly.

Ignorance can be OK. You can be ignorant without being stupid.

You can also be ignorant because you are stupid.

Some people are just cognitively impaired and can’t help being both ignorant and stupid.

Walker has lived long enough he shouldn’t be willingly ignorant and still open his mouth.


184 posted on 10/15/2022 3:40:15 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: Lizavetta

Well maybe, but I’ve gone from Type 1 to Type 2. The BSL numbers support it, and my Endocrinologist was pleased, as was I. 4 shots a day sucked.


185 posted on 10/15/2022 3:53:22 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Lizavetta

“The endocrinologist of my TWO type 1 children will be astounded to learn that type 1 is curable, reversible, or changeable.”

I’ll be glad to forward my Dr’s name/number at Wellspan Medical System, via FRMail, so your doc can talk to mine, if he’s so inclined.


186 posted on 10/15/2022 3:56:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: mewzilla

Healthy Diet and exercise. Prevents and controls.

Walker was absolutely correct, if you don’t think he never listened to a trainer or a physical therapist, or a physician while pursuing a career in the NFL you’re probably very misdirected in your thinking.

The NFL treats their players like racing thoroughbreds, don’t doubt it. When the players are tired of being confined and they go out and raise hell well that’s on their own time but when it comes to the physicality and the maintenance of that physicality it’s all business.


187 posted on 10/15/2022 4:07:30 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: joe fonebone

“A basic lesson on how this disease works should be required reading in Jr. High.”

My two sisters are insulin diabetics, I married a woman who is very conscientious about healthy eating and as a military trained cook 48 years ago I learned how to prepare nutritious meals.

I don’t have diabetes because I eat proper and I eat healthy and I don’t overeat and I exercise, I’m not lucky I’m just proactive and to be honest I don’t know a much at all about diabetes other than my two sisters are insulin dietetics.


188 posted on 10/15/2022 4:14:22 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Toespi

So true.


189 posted on 10/15/2022 4:28:22 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: Clutch Martin

To add, it’s funny why some on this thread are fearful of the media making hay of this.

I mean, what is the media going to say? That being morbidly obese doesn’t contribute to being diabetic in many people, and instead go out and gorge yourself with yodels and twinkies all day, because “Walker is dumb”?

This sounds like what the left is doing now with “fat acceptance”, where you are not allowed to talk ill of the persons who are obese (talking ill meaning getting the person to eat right, exercise, etc.) — instead it is to be celebrated.


190 posted on 10/15/2022 4:52:25 PM PDT by PallMal
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To: NautiNurse

Neither of those people referenced are Type I diabetics. Not a troll. There is Truth beyond your broad generalization.

Unless you are saying you are the troll.


191 posted on 10/17/2022 2:47:10 PM PDT by Trumplican
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To: Trumplican
Neither of those people referenced are Type I diabetics.

They are anecdotes, with all rights and privileges and statistical insignificance therein.

Best Regards,

A Registered Nurse

192 posted on 10/17/2022 3:56:23 PM PDT by NautiNurse (Ron DeSantis is Top Gov)
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To: hflynn
Yes, I did.

You were responding to nwrep so I included that poster as well. I'm agreeing with you while disagreeing with nwrep.

193 posted on 10/17/2022 5:03:16 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: mewzilla

Thanks for the clarification. I’m type 1, and high carb foods mean I need to take more insulin. Eating healthier won’t cure my diabetes, but it would make me healthier.
My brother-in-law cured his type 2 by losing weight.


194 posted on 10/17/2022 5:21:20 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: AnAmericanMother

👍


195 posted on 10/17/2022 5:23:00 PM PDT by hflynn
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To: Lower Deck

Boy, Walker is more intelligent than I realized.


196 posted on 10/17/2022 5:24:42 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: Grampa Dave

What is your A1C?


197 posted on 10/17/2022 5:38:59 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Hgb A1c % 5.5 %

ESTIMATED AVERAGE GLUCOSE 111 mg/dL


198 posted on 10/17/2022 5:52:32 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commiit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: Grampa Dave

Whoa! i thought I was doing good with 6.5, average 145.


199 posted on 10/18/2022 1:12:48 AM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Re my: Hgb A1c % 5.5 %

ESTIMATED AVERAGE GLUCOSE 111 mg/dL

My FP and cardio docs use pictures of my wife’s healthy snack counter and levels to show patients, that often they don’t need special diets or insulin to have good levels.

Moderate exercise,like walking a mile a day and not starving, just eating good food when I get hungry and basically minimal carbs if any.


200 posted on 10/18/2022 8:43:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commiit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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