type 2 diabetes
despite the entreaties
is linked to super size
a trend quite alarming
with factory farming
supplying the food and its rise.
with burgeoning outlets
within easy reach
it doesn't seem much
of a way to teach
but with worship in churches
in serial decline
this feelgood factor
is the message to preach.
diabetes is the price we pay
salivation rules OK
Ray,
I like the secular snatch of un-redemptive word-play
(we`re all livin` on the fat farm these days)
If only I could give up cream slices! :)
There's something that we all should know -
Fast food will make us faster grow...
And if we can't make sense of that,
Recite: Fast food will make you fat!
Ray,
Firstly, I like the title. Both my 4 year old son and my husband have type 1 Diabetes, and it is very frustrating when people don't differentiate between the types.
If I had a quid for every time someone asked me if I gave my own child too many sweets, and therefore 'gave' him this horrible condition, I would be a seriously rich woman!
As for Type 2, I worry that effects of poor education when it comes to our diet, will have a detrimental effect for many years to come (a bit like smoking of the previous generation).
If people could spend some time in the life of a family with insulin dependent Diabetics, injecting themselves a minimum of 4 times daily, pricking their fingers double that, and dealing with the constant highs and lows of this horrible condition, then they might be think twice about their lifestyle choices.
Thanks for the read :)
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raypool
Sat 9th Apr 2016 10:50
Thanks all. Harry, you're forgiven. I think in the latter years maybe a reduction of one or two cholesterol points is slightly pedantic - etc. On with the cream slices. My mum lived to 96 and looked forward to my weekly visit with an apple turnover - she never turned over a new leaf.
Mark: a nursery rhyme of sorts : good advice.
Helen: thanks so much for that. The last thing you need is sanctimonious advice. My wife has rheumatoid arthritis, and no one seems to know that that stays in the blood stream and moves its forces wherever it will.
I think people often have a sense of denial in facing the facts of these unmentionable diseases. It takes a lot to cope with an inevitability of any kind and is life changing.
As far as education is concerned - that is quite different from commercial propaganda, and is its poor relation, I fear.