Ah yes. The 80’s coke heads in charge of things. Think they know better.
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.
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.
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
Food that’s bad for you is often cheap to transport and preserve for long periods. An apple will rot in weeks, but a twinkie can sit on a shelf for years.
The industrialization of agriculture has been highly profitable for a handful of insiders and horrible for everyone else.
The industrialization of agriculture has been highly profitable for a handful of insiders and horrible for everyone else.
Industrialization of agriculture is what keeps enough calories flowing from the farms to the people.
Commercialization of foods - processed foods, fast food restaurants, chain restaurants, ex-tobacco industry leadership of the food companies, that’s the biggest driver of “horrible” - unless you’re profiting from the healthcare costs that are ballooning with American waistlines.
Maybe investigate dishwashing liquid… Could that stuff be part of the cause for obesity and diabetes?
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You wish.
If they can’t manage to trick the stupids into supporting Medicare cuts, then tricking them into killing themselves with dangerous medical misinformation is another way to reduce government spending.
What an absolute fucking retarded thing to say for insulin dependent people
RFK Jr’s FDA chief should probably go get some potty training instead of just spewing his shit for the world to see.
TIL the head of the FDA has the inability to take half a second and google the word diabetes.
No! Stop acting like they’re all stupid, that’s what they want you to think.
He was a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins. It’s literally impossible for him to not be familiar with diabetes unless he has experienced serve memory loss recently.
He’s pushing eugenics and wanting to kill off people with chronic illnesses
Well, I was joking but you make fantastic points and I agree with you.
I’m glad you agree, but the problem is that making jokes of their willful evil is literally helping them. It’s making light of a situation and implying ignorance in their actions. When in reality they are knowingly trying to kill people,
Aka murder, and not some other type of anything. It’s just murder.
This. It’s literally just suggesting “well how about we just let them die”, AKA murder. The HHS especially is now just being filled with eugenicists who are, in general, too chickenshit to just come out and say “well we should kill all of them”.
Chickenshit? Or just shrewd?
Its actually kinda interesting how long they have been taking the “poor and disabled will just kill themselves off” approach. In 2012 Romney was also campaigning on repealing Medicaid and Medicare.
He literally said “people don’t die from a lack of insurance” happy to ignore any chronic diseases and blame the individual.He even had proposed less funding for ambulances and more for services to collect bodies cause he even expected more people to die. We are still there with this party but even more racist and victim blaming while being more aggressive in who the other is while demanding more children to keep capitalism going up… Bunch of the worst people who just want whatever they want and never reality.
It’s always wild to me when I see people with long, often illustrious careers in things like law or medicine, only to pull something like this that is completely antithetical to everything they’ve ever studied or worked toward, and shit all over their legacy.
Like why the fuck were you a surgeon in the first place? If you had these views, why would you go into a career that focuses on helping to keep chronically ill people alive? What is going on in these people’s heads?
Same shit with people like Alito and Thomas. You spent your entire life studying and upholding the US Constitution, and then you get appointed to the highest court in the nation, and decide “yeah fuck that thing, let’s have a dictator”?
It’s mind boggling. I would really like to just have some insight into what is happening in these peoples’ minds…
Time to go all Wilford Brimley on his ass.
Challenge Accepted.
We’ll get insurers and Medicaid to fully cover diabetes supplies in no time.
How many cooked billionaires does it take to satisfy the proletariat?
As many as it takes.
A good rule of thumb whenever I hear anything about what this administration does in regards to health I try to look at it through the lens of eugenics. They want to get rid of the people they consider “weak” and think that using money to help those that need it to be a waste of money. People with autism, weak immune systems, chronic illnesses, poor people, drug addicts, and pretty much anyone else they consider undesirable and less than human. Also, they consider our tax money as their personal bank account as if the country was a company and our taxes are their profits. Pretty fucked up, but it makes more sense than trying to rationalize clearly irrational behavior.
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“Mr. Trump said that if it was up to Mr. Miller there would be only 100 million people in this country, and they would all look like Mr. Miller.” - NYTimes
Ew could you imagine
Weird. The only thing I can think is that we should string these motherfuckers up asap.
Sure, but it’s good to know how we got here
That’s how we prevent this, which we did not.
All we have left is reaction.
Robespierre special
A novel approach to cut A1C levels
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?
As much i love a good trashing of politican the real quote was “Maybe we need to treat more diabetes with cooking classes, not just throwing insulin at people,”
Better diet really could help prevent type 2 diebetes and personally i think prevention is always better solution than treatment.
Oh you mean the thing that we already do? Good suggestion.
The thing is, they act like this isn’t happening already. My doctor frequently checks and monitors my blood sugar and has scheduled conversations with nutritionists to help me adjust my lifestyle and diet.
This is the fucking standard of care.
These quacks are just perpetuating the myth that doctors “just push meds” and are controlled by “big pharma”. It’s how conspiracy theories work. You take a small kernel of truth (we treat some diabetes with insulin) and then just make up sinister stories around it.
Edit: what they actually want is to ne able to blame people who have diabetes for having diabetes. That way they are justified in denying them life-saving medication.
Hum… but your quote indeed uses “treat”, I am no expert, but I feel it might be the verb form of “treatment”…
Great. Everybody has right for feelings.
Its almost like language is funny thing that can be ambiguous and interpreted in many ways. Often the way it suits the person reading it the best.
Im not expert but one might think that in this particular contects he might be using word treat as in the saying “prevention is the best medicine.” And some asshole could comment “I am no expert, but I feel prevention might not be medicine at all”
I dont like the dude and in all truth i could not care less about americans assbackwards medical care system, but i just hate when people take things out of context and try to spin it the way it is best for their own agenta moving the conversation towards hating person/country/religion/political group/ what ever they want instead of thinking that the person might have some idea.
Like in this case we could be writing how we could effect how to get people eat healthier instead of being smartasses.
I guess I agree with that in certain contexts. I remember my buddy became a real nutrition expert after his diagnosis. Kind of taught us all about balancing carbs and fiber and reducing sugar, etc.
RFK is enacting Aktion 74 as part of the construction of the american reich.
So many factors involved in controlling A1C. Not just your diet but lifestyle, exercise, access to health care and healthy inexpensive food.
His blood sugar is high! Quickly!
drags his comatose body to the nearest cooking class
There we go!
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
Thanks! Fixed
