[diabetes]

there's a struggle when dealing with diabetes shit to not like, moralize it

as in "you have diabetes because you're too gluttonous and lacking in self control"

"and you are bad at managing it because you care about food more than staying alive"

"this is a disease you have because you are a bad person"

Artificial pancreas for type 2 diabetes shows promis...

anyway here's some medical research

oh hell yes

I guess I never really thought of an insulin pump as an artificial pancreas but that is. functionally what it is

and them being available for type 2 is HUGE

hell yes, let's gooooooo

also, fuck, it's not like most people were taught anything about nutrition at any point in our lives

me: okay, so I'm pre-diabetic, thank you for the information. what do I do about it?
doctor: eat better.
me: and how do I do that?
doctor: ...eat better.
me: explain further.

define "better", you ass-cabinet

I have plenty of resources, I've talked to a dietician about diabetes, my aunt literally works for weight watchers and knows everything there is to know on the subject

but when I'm faced with assembling and eating a healthy, balanced meal with reasonable proportions, or getting the french fries

I always cave

Ah yes, "eat better", the advice that often in our society implies heavy consumption of fruit, aka the actual worst thing to recommend diabetics consume in excess

wait what

what

can I not eat fruit either

fruits have sugars

they're not pure sucrose, but it's not great for diabetics

I thought fruit sugar was like, better somehow?

You just gotta be careful with them because they do have a fair amount of natural sugar like vehrec said

It's not a "don't touch them" it's a "be mindful"

"I'll just curb my sugar cravings by eating healthier things that still taste nice, like fruit"

god damn it! fuck!

Fruit have sugars in them but so does, like, all food. Sugars are what our bodies consume as calories. Fruit also tend to be high in nutrients and in fibre, and fibre is like (this is a simplification) anti-sugar because it slows down your digestive process, which makes your sugar rise less when you eat.

In general it's less useful to think in terms of 'good foods' and 'bad foods' and more in terms of 'is most of my calories for the day coming from nutritionally dense foods'. You have to eat something, whatever you eat is going to put sugar into your system, so make sure the sugar is coming with something worthwhile.

Most fruit, fresh or frozen, are nutritionally dense. Some are better than others; grapes and bananas are less good, berries and citrus are more good.

see that makes sense but also when you say it to me

what my head hears is just

"okay, so nutritionally dense food is good and other food is bad"

whaps quinn's brain with a ruler

it's a new kind of good or bad where I don't know which foods are which