As a diabetic… we actually need both.
When I was first diagnosed, there was no diet plan. I was looking for “for breakfast, eat this, for lunch, eat this, for dinner, eat this.”
Nobody has a plan like that and as it turns out, there are reasons for that.
Every diabetic reacts differently through the day and what works for me may not work for someone else.
All you can do is continually test with the meter and when you hit an adverse reaction, stop doing that.
My wife finds weird blood sugar fluctations when she has a hot shower, I don’t.
When I’m running low, my go-to to raise sugars is dairy, milk, ice cream, etc, but not every diabetic can do that.
So “learn to cook” or “learn what not to cook” is not the answer, you’d have to have a brain worm to think that… oh, wait…
This. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
When I first got diagnosed with T2 my doc tried to put me on the Mediterranean diet. You know, the one with all kinds of pasta? Yeah, no fucking way that worked.
I ended up having to do keto for about 8 weeks to get my glucose levels under control and then meticulously jab test myself for every freaking meal for about 10 months until I figured out how a variety of foods affected my glucose levels. Mostly just gotta eat high protein, moderate fat, and low carb, but also have to supplement a lot of fiber (soluble and insoluble) and various vitamins so I don’t suffer dietary deficiencies.
At the end of the day, intense resistance training exercise still has a larger impact than any other lifestyle change. And I still occasionally have to go on jab sessions with the vampire stick on the rare occasion my glucose gets out of whack again.
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Edit- I hope to Hell he’s not talking about T1 diabetics. A cooking class isn’t gonna help when your pancreas has left the chat.
Oh yeah, I had the same thing. Dietician told me I could have 50g of carbs with every meal.
“Yeah, no I can’t.”
“Who told you that? ‘The Internet’?”
“No, my blood sugar meter told me that!”
Man… this shit kills me (literally and figuratively). After I got my glucose under control, she (the above noted doc) told my wife “do what he’s doing” in response to an entirely different, unrelated health condition.
One doctor (second after I “cancelled” that first one I mentioned) told me I was cured after I tested 5.1 a1c. I’m like, are you serious? Get me some fucking donuts right now, I’ll wait. We can test again in an hour and see. He backed off the “cured” talk really fast. Then later proceeded to evangelize about statins over multiple visits like it was his job to sell them.
Thankfully I’m now working with a NP who’s knowledgeable and considers holistic health options (lifestyle change, exercise, etc.) as well.
I had a nutritionist wanting me taking fish oil…
“The fish oil that has been proven to not do anything?”
“Where did you hear that?!?!?”
“Harvard.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/the-false-promise-of-fish-oil-supplements
You should never see a nutritionist. They don’t need any particular qualification. I once had one (family of a friend) tell me that you shouldn’t eat sushi because it’s raw. Which also demonstrates that she didn’t know what sushi is because it’s not even always raw. I could declare myself a nutritionist and be just as qualified as whoever you saw.
You should see a dietitian if you need dietary guidance.
Interesting. I actually take an omega-3 supplement, but it’s flaxseed based, not fish oil.
“And no, I don’t need a digital rectal exam, again, Dr. Steve, you fucking creep!”
You kid, but in September I’m going in for an upper GI scan and colonoscopy at the same time.
“Are we sure spit-roasting is a good idea with my heart problems?”
“Please don’t call it that…”
“OK, Steve, don’t get excited, take it slow and easy.”
“Uh, my name is Mike, Doc…”
“I wasn’t talking to you. Here we go…”
Except the advise was “learn to cook instead of taking insulin”.
Edit- I hope to Hell he’s not talking about T1 diabetics. A cooking class isn’t gonna help when your pancreas has left the chat.
Lol, like he knows the difference
Start using his name and calling him out as the public official he is.
He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is the chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
For reference, the pancreas is responsible for producing insulin in the body.
TL;DR: He’s is absolutely aware that type 1 diabetics will die without insulin.
This administration is full of people who think large sections of the population don’t deserve to live and should die. It’s a basic tenet of fascism, and it underlies many of their policy decisions.
It’s just one irresponsible statement after another from the health department of this administration. First do no harm, fuckface.
This isn’t “irresponsible”, it is 100% intentional pushing of eugenics. (The guy is a pancreatic surgon, he knows what this would do)
Yes, paying chefs to teach diabetics how to not die will be cost effective and save more lives than…
Checks notes
…insulin? Wait that can’t be right.
None of this makes any sense. It’s what happens when batshit conspiracy stuff meets fascist eugenics in the company of rich people who want to stop wasting money on the poors.
Billionaires don’t need any more money … they should just build a giant spaceship and fly it into the sun
If they knew physics, they’d be aware that flying out of our solar system would be more energy efficient.
Good news, several of them already bought spaceships.
He was swimming in sewage.
When I first heard of RFK he looked like a complete mental case to me. He was gifted this position out of pure loyalty to Trump. He would literally kiss trumps pasty white toes if he could and that is THE only qualification he has.
It’s not a surprise the man has no complex thoughts. He’s just your crazy uncle who use to be a drug addict who thinks eating germs will make you immune.
He probably thinks you can get immunity to heavy metals by eating lead paint.
he also likes to eat roadkill and would play in fields of rotting cow corpses as a child (I wish I was making this shit up)
258,000,000.
Excessive death is the goal, not a side effect.
RFK should macrodose lead
I think is has, he’s fucking mental
Musk can afford to send us all to cooking school. I’m down.
