If a diabetic has low blood sugar, then they literally DO need sugar, and fast!

I was one of those people who knew my lifestyle was unhealthy, and turning it around was always just one week away. The diagnosis of type II felt like a loss of agency. Like it was no longer my choice to cut back on, or to cut out sugar.

Once the initial shock of diagnosis and grief over all the foods I'd lost settled down, the truth was clear. I had made the choice. The choice to open every single one of those sodas, the choice to go with convenience over health. The choice to kick the can down the road, and I still had the choice to diet, or die slowly.

Not gonna lie and say my diet is perfect now but, according to my NP, my labs paint the picture of someone successfully managing diabetes. I know I still have some work to do though.

That's what we are doing in Finland. Sugar free drinks are taxed at 20c/l but other drinks can go up to 59c/l depending on the sugar amount

Just checked prices from one grocery store and coke zero 24-pack is 15.50€ while the regular one is 19.50€

Random story: I saw a diabetic refuse to have his gangrenous "pinky toe" removed to save his life. Not even a foot, just the one smallest toe. I think about him sometimes.

I think it's been proven sugar is literally an addictive substance; it's hard to say no when it's not your rational mind in control. I have "pre"diabetes even though I never ate sugar; but I ate lots of other carbs and got unlucky. Rice and pasta and (non-American) bread every day sort of thing.

I come from an ethnicity of starvation and poverty, and there's growing research showing that diabetes actually used to be a protective adaptation. The idea is that, if you didn't have many carbs per day, just stretch out that 1 carrot for the whole day. It makes sense in that lens.

Then, overnight, society changed, and we're eating 30 carrots worth of carbs every day. Body didn't get the memo and makes those carbs last as long as possible, as it used to, but now it's a bad thing and causes high blood sugar.

We teach our students on family medicine interview to ask if patients ever drink a glass of water. Most students are shocked to hear how many people never drink beverages that aren't sweetened. This is a North American phenomenon. Then, those patients are in clinic with obesity and eventually type 2 DM. In Europe , water is served with every meal.

If you want to be a FIGJAM, research it yourself.

Most countries teach children in schools how to eat healthy. For years, the FDA has called burger, fries Coke a balanced meal because corporate interests infiltrated government and universities. Harvard told us for decades sugar diets were better than high fat diets, because they were paid to. Candy bars were being sold as low fat healthy options , now people call them sports energy protein bars.

No it's fairly common when you include coffee and water in food for people to get by with rarely having just drink a glass of pure water.

If we only drink soda, 45 gallons sounds disastrously small. Since we're supposed to drink at least 64 Oz of water a day (or a gallon). We can't possibly be that dehydrated.

Ehh, it's still liquid at the end of the day. We going to call beef a luxury because chicken or tofu has more nutritional value (I do not know if this is true. This is just a random theoretical).

AI ass response

Yes, social media has never ever made anybody believe shitty things or make shitty decisions.

But I know, taxing social media use is unfathomable because it would cost you money despite the obvious social rand mental health risks.

No, Facebook, tiktok, Reddit, fediverse, blue sky, all without consequences or effects at the personal or socialital levels.

Incoming triade about how fediverse algorithms are unique because they only follow easily exploitable hottest and popular models and this place definitely isn't just the most displaced small populations of progressives, anarchists, and trans community members with their own biases and immediate fuck you's to anyone who doesn't wholly agree with their objectives.

Pick your battles. I very much think having a megaphone to the Internet has been more problematic to my life than fucking Coke.

He's addicted to soda. His diabetes and obesity are gEnEtIc mIcROpLaStIcS.