Ah yes. The 80’s coke heads in charge of things. Think they know better.
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
They’re all fucking weirdos and idiots if I had a shop I couldn’t trust any if this lot to work the till alone. If they where poor they would have all died by now.
Fascist could also try a bullet salad.
Well that would weed all the diabetics out of the American gene pool in just a few days. I’m not sure diabetics are the real problem though.
They are just telling states that they’re not going to subsidize medical care anymore. It’s part of the push to do the *reverse *of nationalized medical care. This will be followed by a “yuuuge” new plan to pump federal funding into medical insurance companies.
This is corporate oligarchy everyone. It means you’re not a citizen worthy of living unless you’re profitable
I hope that California decides to withhold taxes from the federal government, and institutes universal healthcare. Maybe the blue states can have a compact to form a universal healthcare medical network between them?
That would basically be secession. It doesn’t sound like Newsom wants to secede, if anything he seems to want to “play ball” with the administration. Our states are still deeply tied to each other and the federal government, a lot of the talk that’s been going around about what states can and cannot do is misinformation designed to make us think we’re not actually a “united” states. It’s more attempts to sow disconnection from community and to promote radical individualism. United fronts can do a LOT of harm to a government trying to get away with nefarious shit.
What will be more likely in the near-term future is states that have money and surplus will subsidize their own healthcare options. Which California already does to a large degree. But they may have to step it up as their citizens lose federally funded benefits.
To be fair, our western diet of mainly cheap non-nutritive carbs suck. America needs desperately to change their diet but when Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her. JFK jr, on the other hand is totally nuts.
It must have been quit a challenge to find the most incompetent losers to fill the failed, fucked-up, fat, fascist, felon’s cabinet.There’s no need to be fair here. Insulin is absolutely essential for diabetics, and the head of the FDA trying to proclaim that cooking classes are a viable alternative is nonsense. For type 1 diabetics, no amount of healthy eating is going to get their body to produce insulin. For type 2 diabetics, it is possible to eventually get to a point where you can be stable without insulin, but not for everybody and not right away. Insulin treatment is the only way to survive with diabetes for an extended period of time, and the focus needs to be on ensuring that insulin is both affordable and accessible.
Yes, there are things to improve in our food supply, but don’t let that distract from how egregiously insane his comments are about diabetes.
This is the truth, right here.
To be fair
Well there’s your problem. Never hand it to fascists (or grifters, or cult leaders, etc. — basically any kind of bad faith actors).
You do know there are different types of diabetes, right? And a lot of different things that can lead to diabetes?
Some people do get there, in part, due to poor diet, but not everyone.
Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her.
Part of her plan would have banned Cheerios in schools because of added salt. That was one of the things getting pushback.
Her initiative to get added sugars listed on nutrition labels had very broad support.
You guys have chips in schools? Bruh…
Cheerios are a breakfast cereal. Generally considered a relatively healthy one due to their lack of added sugars.
My bad. I was thinking of cheetos
Oh yeah, I can see how you got to “bruh” there.
I know someone said cheerios are cereal, which they are. But we do indeed have chips, or crisps, in our schools.
It must have been quit a challenge to find the most incompetent losers to fill the failed, fucked-up, fat, fascist, felon’s cabinet.
Not really. Anyone who actually wants to support Trump automatically falls into that group.
Considering that the GOP wants to kill SNAP, it is pretty clear that RFK wants his hands bloodied.
This guy, like the rest of that lot, are butchers of the innocent and trusting.
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.
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
“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
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Isn’t that not how diabetes works?
I’m an idiot about biology anything, let alone food and drugs, but I know that.
There are several types of diabetes. It’s a disease that keeps your body from turning sugar into energy or fat so it floats around in your blood corroding your organs and fine blood vessels, and can outright kill you with shock if too much sugar builds up in your blood. (very simplified.)
Type 2 is the most common, this where you don’t produce enough insulin, the chemical that turns your sugar into power or fat storage. You have to both take care with your diet and constantly monitor your blood sugar, and you have to often take insulin daily to balance it. Some people have reversed type-2 with very rigorous diets and exercise, and some people at risk can avoid it altogether by keeping blood sugar low throughout their life, but if you have a predisposition to type-2, you may end up with the disease for life even if you do everything right.
Type 1 is where you body produces NO insulin of your own. Totally broken. This was typically a fairly certain and swift death-sentence before insulin was developed. People with type-1 are not people who have dietary problems or bad habits, they have organ failure which can be caused by a variety of things, usually genetics or other diseases.
These diseases effect all ages and all walks of life. Beware the next wave of propaganda that will depict diabetes sufferers as some kind of slobs who can’t take care of themselve and it’s their own fault for being sick. This is already how many people see diabetes. It doesn’t help with the fascist goals that often people of color and non-white ethnicities and poor people are particularly susceptible to diabetes.
Another complication that often gets left out is that there’s even a type of diabetes that has nothing to do with insulin or blood sugar, but vasopressin. It’s far more rare, but people with that won’t be helped with diet either, so it’s worth a mention.
Basically now as a type 2 diabetic I cannot eat anything and I’m still at elevated sugars…
Weight loss and a super low carb diet would work… Maybe… But if I even fuck it up for a week my sugars will be sky high again
Ozempic is getting a lot of hype and criticism as the big “weight loss drug” of the century, but it’s originally meant to help people like you who have insulin resistance. A doctor should be able to prescribe it under most plans far easier than if you were just trying to get it for weight loss alone. (you have to stay on it for extended time for it to really start working, and it will make you feel rather sick for the first couple weeks, but it goes away.)
I also hope you are getting actual medical care and prescriptions to things like slow-acting and fast-acting insulins, and drugs that help protect your heart and kidneys, organs that often fail from diabetes. Staying with a doctor’s plan even if it’s embarrassing or difficult will literally save your life.
If you don’t have insurance, apply for state help. If you don’t have that, move somewhere that does. It’s that serious.
It’s a massive hassle in life, but if you put the effort in you can live a long, full life with the disease. Get to know how carbohydrates work and start balancing your diet with more high-fiber foods, less processed foods and carbs like breads, rice or potatoes. Protein and vegetables are going to keep you healthy and alive. Daily walks are not going to help you lose weight by themselves, but they will help your body turn sugar into energy faster so that sugar doesn’t sit in your blood corroding your organs, eyes and blood vessels.
Absolutely. I am getting help since im just personally not able to keep up the required diet. It’s practically impossible in America it feels like. Every restaurant is off the table and little joys in life would be out of reach.
Thankfully I don’t need insulin, and after losing weight I’ve significantly decreased the amount of meds needed to keep my sugars normal, but just wanted to post to show people without diabetes that it’s a disease, not something solely caused by just being unhealthy. Being unhealthy just makes the symptoms of the disease worse
Very glad to hear that you’re working on keeping it under control. My spiel was for the sake of not just you, but anyone else reading this. I know it’s hard but don’t quit, particularly if you have people in your life who care about you.
I was horrified when I learned just how many people don’t even make an attempt to manage their diabetes, and the much larger swath who say they do, but are just half-assing it because yes, you are severely restricted on your activities, places you can go eat, family gatherings, etc. It’s a huge pain in the ass and most people don’t have the time or knowledge to modify their lives if they otherwise feel “normal.”
I have a friend of a family member I game with who is very overweight, she steals her father’s ozempic to “take hits off once in a while” like it’s a fucking vape pen. The father is bleeding through his skin and still won’t take his meds or stop ordering takeout. This kind of nihilistic ignorance isn’t uncommon at all.
Type 1 diabetics dont make any insulin at all. So as soon as you cut off their supply they start dying. 4 days should see them all gone. (I am type 1 myself)
Certain types and situations of diabetes can be effectively controlled with a low (usually very low; ketogenic) carb diet and careful weight management. It doesn’t apply to all or even most situations, which is why we use insulin.
Also, vegetables have carbs, and you really, really should be eating a lot of vegetables for many reasons.
People will die because of these fuck holes.
“Try not being so fat, you fucking fatties” is a reaction I have heard from people who are themselves overweight. It’s genuinely maddening to see how many Americans are sold on the most superficial understanding of “healthy” as “fuckable” rather than “capable and resilient”.
So much of the Trump attitude towards health seems to be geared towards eugenics against old ugly poors.
That’s what’s stupid too is most of the eugenics are directed at things eugenics don’t even “fix” - it doesn’t matter how well bred you are you will get old and we already have plenty of hot and smart poor people, lots of them even have college educations beyond that, beauty is in the eye of the beholder
Killing people is a core tenet of the Republican party.
Cute, little Trump
So many factors involved in controlling A1C. Not just your diet but lifestyle, exercise, access to health care and healthy inexpensive food.
People are too tired and overworked to cook. Poor people are far more likely to spend too much time commuting to work too.
And their suggestion only addresses one type of diabetes. There’s a whole other type of diabetes.
I think its implicit that he’s only talking about type 2 diabetes, which is the vast majority of the cases in the US
I don’t understand why people are still so insistent on being charitable to these scumbags.
Its just basic statistics
I’m referring to the “implicit” part. Giving these people the benefit of the doubt and pretending that they meant something less offensive.
Ahh yes, the starvation diet is back on the menu for type 1’s, boys!
I recall back in the day the longest anyone lived on the starvation diet before insulin developed was a year or 2.
depends on how far along typ1 diabetes damages the iselt cells in the pancreas. the diet most likely wont work if you cant produce insulin anymore, especially you can get unreliable walmart reliant otc isulin. theres a slow decline insulin production as your islet beta cells get destroyed.
one of the rare ways around it if someone is on immunosuppressants all the time from organ transplant.
Yeaaah, between an organ transplant and taking immunosuppressant the rest of my life, or just continuing to take insulin, I think I’ll take insulin.
