Week 7 *sigh*

Re: Week 7 *sigh*

• short+sassy member

  

  March 2017

  TrixieJess said:

  short+sassy said:

  kimmiinthemitten said:

  Someone I went to HS with who loves Trump just posted on FB that she is boycotting anything that grows on a vine and is hand picked by "farm workers."
  
  Bahahaha - enjoy your processed can food that lacks nutrition and is going to give your children diabetes.

  
  I wholeheartedly agree with your first statement.  Hopefully she will start her own large garden to keep her family from developing scurvy.  Or did she literally mean a "vine".  Because many items on a farm do not grow on vines, so I don't really get the point unless she means anything grown on a farm.  I wonder if she realizes that also means no wine?

  But I need to call full stop on your second statement.  You know I think you're awesome and typically super well informed, @kimmiinthemitten, but I have to correct.  As a Type I Diabetic myself, the MYTH and offhand comments that eating too much sugar or too much whatever causes diabetes...especially Type I Diabetes (which is pretty much the only kind children have)...is a huge pet peeve of mine.

  Type I Diabetes is caused by a malfunction in the immune system where a person's own body attacks the beta cells in the pancreas.  Beta cells produce insulin, so no insulin can be produced once they are destroyed.  It is a disease that just happens.  It has nothing to do with what a person eats.  There is nothing that can be done to prevent it.

  Being overweight can be a factor in Type II Diabetes, which is a different disease, despite the similar name (and that annoys the s**t out of me also).  But usually only in people who already have a natural predilection for this condition.  Many people who eat horribly and/or are overweight, because that is not always the same thing, will never develop Type II Diabetes.  And there are also people who are a perfectly healthy weight and/or eat very healthy that will still develop Type II Diabetes. 

  Actually they are finding occurrences of type II diabetes in people as young as 9 as well as other metabolic disorders which they are attributing to the North American diet. I have several friends who have worked on these studies for prominent universities. 
  
  As for boycotting things grown on a "vine" que?

  Warning, this turned into a whine fest:

  True but, in the past, it has been highly unusual.  And it is still far from the majority.

  I just went fact finding and was a bit surprised.  In 1994, coincidentally about 2 years after I was diagnosed, Type II diabetes in new cases for children was less than 5%.  Today, that stat has risen to about 20%.  But 20% is new cases.  The % of Type I diabetics under the age of 18 is still going to be much less than that.

  Here's the problem.  At least for me.  Everybody has heard of "diabetes", but few people understand it or knows what it means.  Or realize there are two types that are completely different from each other.

  So I have to spend my life with people asking me stupid-ass questions like, "Oh, did you get your diabetes because you ate too much sugar?"  No, let me educate you a little about that friend...while you suck down that 32oz. Slurpee from 7-11.

  And the ignorant jokes like, "That was so sweet it gave me diabetes."  (Not directed at anyone on this board).

  Argh!  Diet has nothing to do with developing Type I Diabetes.  And it is only a factor, though sometimes a major one, in developing Type II.

  Or there is an article with headlines like "New Development in Diabetes".  And I KNOW it is going to be about Type II.  Because 99% of the time it is.  But I have to read it anyway...just in case.

  Even my BFF doesn't understand (sigh).  Though I've explained it to her a 100 times.  She still has to tell me every time she hears a story about "someone who doesn't have to take insulin anymore" because they took "this" supplement.  Or did X,Y,Z.

  In sum: I wish I could go back in time and force doctors to give these conditions two different names.

  Fun fact:  Diabetes in Latin means "sweet urine".  Because back in the Roman days, doctors would routinely sample their patient's urine to help in diagnosis.  And people with this condition had urine that tasted sweet.

  

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• ILoveBeachMusic member

  

  March 2017

  kimmiinthemitten said:

  Thank god your baby is okay and you didn't have to make those decisions @southernbelle0915.  But that scenario is exactly why I want to know in advance.  
  
  I like to have answers and procedures before things become emotional.  When I tested for the BRCA gene I researched all of my options before my results came back so I knew my decision would be borne of logic and research.
  
  I have a cousin who has to make a separate appointment to have her tubes tied because she delivered in a Catholic hospital.  She didn't even know her doctor wouldn't do it until after she was pregnant and had to find another one to do the procedure.  No thanks,  you're either on board or you're out.

   The hospital that wouldn't allow it (because it was Catholic). My doctor had privileges at a secular and a Catholic hospital. Tubals had to be done at the secular one. 

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• missJeanLouise member

  

  March 2017

  There is no such thing as Clean Coal!!!!! *head desk head desk head desk*

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• Heffalump member

  

  March 2017

  missJeanLouise said:

  There is no such thing as Clean Coal!!!!! *head desk head desk head desk*

  
  TV REPORTER
  What about Clean Coal?
  
  BARTLET
  Clean Coal is a term that pollsters came up with 'cause it polls higher then
  regular coal. What we want are real cleaner burning fuels. We want to control our destiny through innovation and that's what we're going to be talking about Thursday night.
  
  (West Wing, season 3, episode 16, "The U.S. Poet Laureate.")
  
  
  

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