Illinois sweetened beverage tax goes into effect July 1st 2017-moved to the 12th now

[monocle_layton]

Ganoncrotch said:

monocle_layton said:

There we go- if you're diabetic, then you aren't super healthy.

 

The US has a huge issue with obesity. Michelle tried reforming school lunches, they kept pushing exercise everywhere, and now we see fat tax. What else can we do? The food industry obviously won't help- it'll only make it worse. After all, many industries paid scientists to fabricate studies in their favour. It's why people avoid fats but are fine with eating sugar, grains, dairy, and red meat to their graves

 

I feel bad for people like you. Diabetes isn't fun for anyone. Trust me, having relatives with it lets me know they cannot control it. However, is soda the only efficient way to solve your sugar issue? My cousin uses lollipops or candy typically

What the actual fuck....

I have Type 1 Diabetes, it effectively has/had nothing to do with being unhealthy to develope it and most certainly had nothing to do with drinking soda

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetes_mellitus_type_1

It's an auto immune disorder, my white blood cells destroyed the insulin producing cells in my pancreas because they accidentally identified them as a threat to my body.

Type 2 is where the body makes insulin but you are basically too poorly and large for that amount of insulin to be enough for you, type 1 is a different thing... it's pretty much a different condition, hate that they share a name, but yeah, I'm not overweight and most certainly not... unhealthy.

Not every diabetic person is overweight. Not every overweight person is diabetic.

 

However, the statistics that I recall from studying obesity/type 2 correlation does show that many people with type 2 are also obese. http://asmbs.org/resources/weight-and-type-2-diabetes-after-bariatric-surgery-fact-sheet

 

I'm sorry for mistaking type 1 with type 2. That was a terrible mistake, but I assure you I'm not trying to paint you as some obese diabetic.