The Diabetes Cure!?!
by DAN ALVIN
“Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure.” – The American Diabetes Association
What do I have to say about diabetes?
That it is an affliction that ignited a panoply of conditions in my father and eventually killed him at age 57, and that his body was brutally ravaged by the end of it? That I cannot remember one instance where I saw him eat a fresh piece of fruit or raw vegetable, but that I can vividly recall the endless bursting of diet pop-tops flipped open to punctuate each night after work and every waking hour on the weekends?
What do I have to say about diabetes?
That I saw it attacking kids in rural Northern Minnesota before they were teenagers, crippling and killing far too many of them as doctors stood by vexing?
That Big Pharma is the biggest and most powerful drug cartel in recorded history?
In light of the hubbub surrounding Paul Deen’s admission that she has been stricken (struck herself?) with one of the biggest killers in The States, I would like to point out that the simplest truths can be hard to shake, persistent and plain as the nose on your face – here is one of those truths:
Almost without exception, Type-2 Adult Onset Diabetes is entirely preventable and reversible if the appropriate dietary adjustments are made. As Hippocrates said millennia ago (via Woody Harrelson, below), “Let food be thy medicine.” And from the Hippocratic writing Epidemics, we find the following stated quite succinctly:
“The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present and foretell the future – must mediate these things, and have two special objects in view with regard to disease, namely, to do good or to do no harm. The art consists in three things – the disease, the patient, and the physician. The physician is the servant of the art, and the patient must combat the disease along with the physician.”
So, when recovering from a disorder that has disrupted the equilibrium of your body, how do you begin to take steps to reclaim your health and promote longevity? How do you begin the long road back from a debilitating illness? By proffering a concise synopsis of that same passage from Epidemics, and giving a maxim to the people as a quick and easy reminder: “First, do no harm.” That there is the cure, and that is what I have to say about diabetes….
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How important would Deen have become if she had tried some different approaches-like this one?
To each their own, and millions of dollars is millions of dollars, but who is to say that she could not have made millions going about this issue from a broader perspective.
I feel we ought try not to judge folks, but I do feel that she has missed an opportunity to become a very important leader in this whole debate.
Agreed. She really disgusts me, and not because she cooked fat-laden food and promoted it relentlessly. What’s disgusting is that, if we look at her timeline, for two years after she was diagnosed with diabetes, she continued to promote a diet that leads to exactly that illness and other health problems. What’s disgusting about her (and many “celebrities”) is that they lack the good taste and sense to step back out of the spotlight, be quiet for a while and perhaps acknowledge that the lifestyle they relentlessly promoted wasn’t a good thing. What’s disgusting is that it’s likely, as Bourdain said, that she didn’t release her diagnosis until she was “positioned” to capitalize on it, and not risk the empire. Diabetes is serious, and to suggest that simply popping a pill is responsible management is ridiculous. She did miss an opportunity, but, in doing so, revealed her true self. From that, the public has the opportunity to give her what she deserves: rejection.