Diabetes – Stop the Madness!

CNN reports today by the year 2034 that 44.1 million Americans will be living with diabetes and the cost will rise from $113 billion to $336 billion per year. For the most part I believe, after having done the research, this is a disease that should be going down in cost. Why? Well if we start taking responsibility for our own health and stop leaving it with the Doctors and Pharmaceutical companies,
Diabetes would be reduced rather than increased. This is a disease that is brought on by our diet unless you suffer from type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is brought on primarily by What we eat! That would include not only what we eat with our mouths but what we are eating with our eyes.
Fast food companies are not only guilty of saturating us with their fats and high fructose corn syrup but they also saturate our minds with commercial after commercial of individuals happily scarfing down their non nutritional food. What they don’t show you is their consumers having to test their blood day after day to try and maintain their normal insulin levels. They don’t show the individuals Who have to have their leg amputated from poor circulation nor do they show you people who have to take dialysis and the problems associated with it.
Back in the 50’s, yes way back before Ronald had his McDonald’s and his Big Mac heart attack, Doctors used to puff on their healthy cigarettes and tell us that it did not matter what we ate. Cigarette companies ran ad after ad telling us the benefits of smoking and how refreshing it was. Since that time cigarette companies are no longer allowed to run commercials on television to teach us about the wonders of smoking and our view of tobacco has changed. Not only has that changed but they have also been found liable for the promotion of death in the case of some individuals. Perhaps it is time we started to treat the fast food industry like we have treated the Cigarette company. Perhaps we need to put a warning label on Fast Food packaging and stop the commercial bombardment of their advertising. Maybe they are not as innocent as they claim to be when they are being tried for their accountability with regards to an individuals health, but then again neither are we.
How wrong it was in the past to not really teach nutrition and profess that your diet had little if anything to do with a persons health. How wrong it is proving to be. Not being concerned about eating healthy has made us very unhealthy and dependent on the world of pharmaceuticals to save us. For the most part, aside from a few exceptions, The pharmaceutical companies seemed to have made our world worse not better. They have fed us with a victim mentality and told us not to worry we have a drug for you. That is as long as you have insurance. Oh and don’t worry we are not going to cut your doctor out, you will need a prescription. If you don’t have insurance we are going to make up for the discount we give the insurance companies with our astronomical charge that we are going to lay on you. For the Medical industry, and I am talking about the commercial part of it, I’m sure they are looking at the article in CNN and thinking about all their profits for the future. For you and I, I hope we are thinking about stopping the Madness!