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This poor lady was given such bad advice. Groceries can be delivered too, diabetes+fast food is a recipe for disaster.
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax. Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax. If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.
Diet choices are not a problem of policy.
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax. Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax. If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.
Everyone talks about sugar. But the real problem is food culture (or the lack of). American, and now many European diets now consist of either fast food, oven-ready food or fried food. I recently went shopping and had a look at the "healthy" aisle. I could only find supposedly healthy food consisting of extremely savory dishes -carbonara, paella, etc. This is no way to eat healthy In many western countries, no one is…
And there's certainly nothing wrong with seasoning. Healthy food doesn't need to be bland.
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax. Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax. If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.
Stop taxing everything. Tax is not the solution for everything. The people buying soda are generally the poor or middle class. All this does it take more money from those who need it the most. What we need to do is regulate how much sugar you can put into foods. But we can't do that. We have to prop up the corn industry with subsidies. Sugar and HFCS is in literally everything. By adding a sugar tax you're basically…
Easiest solution to diabetes: Sugar tax. Easiest solution to climate change: Carbon tax. If we havn't used these solutions, someone high up in the food chain is placing a greater emphasis on profits from the status quo instead of the wellbeing of the population.
Wrong. You should BAN High-fructose corn syrup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
It is way more harmful than natural sugar.
It is not banned yet because:
- It is made from corn, and corn is heavily substituted by US government.
- It is super cheap (high volume of corn available)
- It is not only slightly sweet but also prevents spoilage (that's why they add it to US "bread" !)
- It is good anti-oxidizer
- It is good and cheap liaison
You have to go way out of your way to get food that is not loaded with sugar. Just normal food, let alone something that is meant to be a desert. Peoples taste becomes so attuned to it that they don't even realize that almost everything they eat is a desert. It takes attention and effort to get off of that soft addiction. The first several months things will taste bland. But, once you reset your taste buds, you will…
Seriously. It's such a pain to shop. I've, thankfully, managed to find one brand of 100% whole wheat bread that has And protein bars, despite being labeled as 'healthy', usually contain tons of added sugar, sadly. Or, just as bad, they have sugar alcohols to make them sweeter. It'd be nice to just find one that only has sugar from what's in it, without all the added stuff. Closest I've gotten to zero is one with 2g sugar and 2g sugar alcohols.
As for the addiction, you're 100% right. I used to drink way too much sweet tea a day. I went without for only a week and the first one I drank after that was just not flavorful. It was quite disgusting. I've since added it back in from time to time, but mostly I just drink unsweet anymore.
Alternate title: After a many years of improvement, there was one bad year for diabetics during a pandemic.
Which imaginary years were those? The years where a proliferation of marginal drug improvements (due to expiring patents) were replaced by a cure? Where access to diagnostic equipment and preventative care wasn't severely limited by for-profit healthcare companies? I'd like to know more!!!
I had been referred to my local hospital's diabetes department and was prescribed Metformin. On my second appointment I was given "the talk" and told I would definitely end up on insulin - everyone does - and will probably have all kinds of nasty complications.
Then we looked at my most recent HbA1c result. "The metformin is working well for now", he said. "Your a1c is back to normal".
"No, I haven't been taking it. I've done that through diet alone."
I was discharged from their care on the spot and haven't been back.