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Lucky for me my parents were both "I didn't save anything for retirement, my kids will take care of me when I'm older", so I don't have to suffer through this.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Lucky for me my parents were both "I didn't save anything for retirement, my kids will take care of me when I'm older"

man I feel that. It's like raising a teenager.

"don't do that, it'll infect your PC."

"don't buy from there your card info will be stolen."

"no, Biden isn't going to round us up into camps."

"now we have to call and get you a new debit card."

"please don't buy so much junk food....why? because you have diabetes."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

please don’t buy so much junk food…why? because you have diabetes

This one hit too close to home. My mum has diabetes, dad is close to it, I can't get them to stop eating sweets

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

There’s an odd mentality that you just need to dose more insulin, no big deal, when eating poorly with diabetes. Understanding is sometimes the problem.

Here’s a better way to think about it in terms of body damage over time.

Think of sugar as fuel, because it is. When you have diabetes you lack the capacity to regulate the concentration and intensity of that fuel once you ingest it. You can add other things to the mix that can and will help (insulin and various oral agents) but the efficiency and immediacy of the inherent system simply isn’t there when you have diabetes.

Think of excess sugar in the blood as a caustic fuel that slowly (speed varies by individual as well as food consumed) burns out the vasculature (blood vessels) over time.

This burn out due to excess fuel is why nerves in the feet die. Neuropathy is the official name for the numbness and tingling in toes and feet that diabetics generally, eventually, experience. The burnout is also why toe tissue dies and toes need to be amputated, along with a foot or even an entire lower leg with knee, depending. Eye tissue is another location hit particularly hard by this burn out effect from sugars.

So there’s impact over time based on how much caustic sugar fuel you pour into your own bloodstream.

Also, sugar is addictive. Like meth or heroin, people struggle with letting it go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago

Theres also a ton of people, medical professionals included, that treat type two diabetes as a permanent problem with no possibility of reversing it. This leads to people focusing on the medication they need to take instead of the food they eat.