We’ve had discussion on this before, but I thought I’d throw it out there as a poll:
This article came via email in my inbox a couple of weeks ago and I thought it was pretty interesting. Not sure all of the reasons are viable nor proven, but interesting for discussion.
This is what it said:
A 2009 study in The Lancet found that new cases of type 1 diabetes in kids could double in the next 10 years. Possible reasons for this dramatic rise include:
1. Too big too fast. The “accelerator hypothesis” theorizes that children who are bigger and grow more quickly are more likely to develop type 1 diabetes.
2. Too little sun. The “sunshine hypothesis” comes from data showing that countries situated closer to the equator have lower rates of type 1…
A picture tells a thousand words, and one-handed typing takes a thousand years, so I’ll summarise.
1. Awesome! Husband takes me with him on work trip to Queenstown.
2. Haven’t been on a snowboard for 15 years plus recently had baby so very respectful of zero skill base and altered balance overall.
3. Cousin lives in Queenstown and lends me his wrist guards.
4. Do things right by kicking off with a lesson. It goes really well. However it emerges that cousin has given me two left wrist guards. Wear one and put other in pocket.
5. BG too high to have lunch after lesson (17.1 – had turned pump off in anticipation of hypos but with exercise as you…
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A couple of curly ones.
As you know, typing is not something I’m set up to do in my current state, so the aim of the game this week is brevity.
With that in mind I thought I’d get a couple of quick whinges out before the weekend.
Whinge 1. When people think it’s funny to pretend they think you get high on insulin.
I had this at work the other day. The guy who said it is a nice guy and very intelligent, but not blessed with wit unfortunately. I was taking my BG as I spoke to him (he’d come over to my desk after all). He took one look and said something like “oooooh, can I have a shot too?”. I had to reeeeeaally control myself from rolling my eyes. For a start I wasn’t even shooting up, I was drawing blood!!
Whinge 2. Cure believers.
God bless this bunch because I know they’re well-meaning, but unless you can present me with hard core evidence of this, I am never going to believe you when you tell me that a diet or natural therapy will cure my type 1 diabetes. In fact I’m likely to get pretty frustrated about the entire conversation.
I could write a long list of whinges but (a) it’s probably best I just let you get on with your Friday and (b) this post alone has taken me far too long to type with my left hand! Happy weekend all.
Nic
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