I can’t believe we still discuss diets. As in, what we eat, what we should eat, what supplements to take, who makes them, why we need them, why we don’t need them, what we do need, what we never need, what someone on the other side of the planet needs, what someone with green eyes needs, what an apple shape should eat and what a cantaloupe shape should eat and what a dear me pineapple shape should eat.
It’s enough to drive a person crazy.
And, then there is of course the dreaded DIABETIC DIET. Cookbooks for DIABETICS and DIABETIC CANDY BARS and DIABETIC DRINKS and wow I’m surprised they haven’t come out with DIABETIC EAR CLEANERS by now.
I guess I feel the best when I don’t consider life in terms of “diabetic” and “non-diabetic” because I like to choose when I put on that moniker myself and not give that choice to others.
It’s my disease, my choice when to be labeled.
(Hey, I’m not saying I make a lot of sense all the time.)
I think my feathers get the most ruffled when it comes to a DIABETIC DIET. Type one diabetes has a load in common with type two diabetes, but the advancements in insulin delivery technology over the past 30 years means to me that as a type one I don’t need to avoid much of anything when it comes to food.
(I need to avoid some of it for other reasons like my overall health and size, but that’s not what I’m talking about.)
And then Joslin enters the fray and I feel all hope may be lost.
Joslin, one of the most highly regarded and prolific diabetes knowledge and care centers in the world, and I’m getting miffed when they put up a blog about a DIABETIC DIET.
My prerogative, I guess. Like I just said, I’m not one to make sense all the time.
Since I have found that the more I shoot for healthy eating the easier things go. The less I think about “how many grams of protein am I eating” and the more I think about “how many different fruits and veggies can I eat in a day” the better things go.
So when Joslin puts out information with phrases like “ability to prevent or manage diabetes” then I really do request that this preeminent diabetes center be more responsible and specific. I want them to say, in their own blog written by their own expert, something along the lines of “ability to prevent type two diabetes”.
I just want those two extra words. Heck, one of them can even just be a digit.
With news reporters discussing the various types of diets out there and they say things like “prevent or reverse diabetes” it makes my job that much harder.
I didn’t think any of us needed any of this to be MORE difficult.
And, for the record, the top three in the Joslin blog? Each incorporate HEALTHY EATING and EXERCISE.
Maybe not as marketable, but definitely more effective.