• rayyy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    To be fair, our western diet of mainly cheap non-nutritive carbs suck. America needs desperately to change their diet but when Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her. JFK jr, on the other hand is totally nuts.
    It must have been quit a challenge to find the most incompetent losers to fill the failed, fucked-up, fat, fascist, felon’s cabinet.

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      There’s no need to be fair here. Insulin is absolutely essential for diabetics, and the head of the FDA trying to proclaim that cooking classes are a viable alternative is nonsense. For type 1 diabetics, no amount of healthy eating is going to get their body to produce insulin. For type 2 diabetics, it is possible to eventually get to a point where you can be stable without insulin, but not for everybody and not right away. Insulin treatment is the only way to survive with diabetes for an extended period of time, and the focus needs to be on ensuring that insulin is both affordable and accessible.

      Yes, there are things to improve in our food supply, but don’t let that distract from how egregiously insane his comments are about diabetes.

    • lemonaz@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      To be fair

      Well there’s your problem. Never hand it to fascists (or grifters, or cult leaders, etc. — basically any kind of bad faith actors).

    • ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      You do know there are different types of diabetes, right? And a lot of different things that can lead to diabetes?

      Some people do get there, in part, due to poor diet, but not everyone.

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      Michelle Obama tried to encourage better eating habits the Republicans attacked her.

      Part of her plan would have banned Cheerios in schools because of added salt. That was one of the things getting pushback.

      Her initiative to get added sugars listed on nutrition labels had very broad support.

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      It must have been quit a challenge to find the most incompetent losers to fill the failed, fucked-up, fat, fascist, felon’s cabinet.

      Not really. Anyone who actually wants to support Trump automatically falls into that group.