NY Times series on diabetes

[delfin]

Anyone following this series? It's so sad and infuriating at the same time. The people who can least afford to have this disease are getting it. And the bad behaviors that can aggravate diabetes persist. When the reporter inquired about eating habits, one guy says, "We've got cultural differences. Here, for a guy to eat a salad, he's a wimp." Makes you wanna scream, real men eat salads!!!!x(

 

[amyg]

I HAVE READ THE SERIES HEADLINES AS I WALK INTO WORK AND I HATE IT. ABSOLUTELY HATE IT.

Okay, so I'm diabetic, and it's a MISERABLE THING TO DO and a MISERABLE WAY TO PRESENT THE DISEASE.

To go around and say that their morning number (that's blood glucose measurement) was a BAD number at 228 is just an IMPOSSIBLE and UNHEALTHY way to live. 228 is just a NUMBER and if you tell yourself every flipping day that you're bad how do you think you're going to end up???

I did things that way for 8 years and was miserable. When I finally found a place that helped me see that it's just data, NOT a judgment call, my life CHANGED and I've been in relatively great control since.

I have to now do this PR educational campaign with all who I know who are reading the series and set them straight. THE SERIES IS TERRIBLE and puts the disease in the most dramatic and unfavorable light I can't hardly see straight. x( x(

Who do you think that article is helping?!?!?!?! I get so mad I can't read the whole article.

 

[Miss Lee]

Amy,

I know exactly what you mean--not about this particular series of articles--but about health related articles of any kind. I know my DH has a fit over some of them, especially health segments on news magazine programs like NBC's Dateline and Primetime to name 2. They really skew information, usually in a negative, sensationalized way in order to increase interest and viewership/readership. They do a huge disservice.:-(

Michele