Diabetes Stories

This post by JJSDiabetes was really interesting. It's called Diabetes Stories. It features interviews from fifty diabetics, telling their experiences from diagnosis, to coping, and treatment.

A large number of the recorded cases are Type 1 diabetics; very disporportionate when compared to today's numbers in America. Over 90% of all diabetics are Type 2 cases nowadays. It would have been great to hear from more Type 2 patients.

You may notice (from pictures and from statements made by the interviewees) that most Type 2 patients have a weight problem. What does this say about the increasing problem of obesity we have today among children?

We keep on making more medicines, more studies are predicting increasing numbers of patients, while we are still looking for a "cure" for diabetes, but often inthe wrong places. Imagine looking in animal venom and laboratory coctails, while neglecting an effective education on lifestyle revention.

I am determined that my diabetic story should be different. And for those of you who may be genetically predisposed (and maybe all of us are, in some way), know that you do not have to add your story to the catalog of diabetic patients. Choose to be healthy - it's a lifestyle thing - and write your 'health story' in a different book.