Diabetes is a very common disease in peoples now-a-days. Every
person with diabetes has a one story or comments related to diabetes which they
received that completely left them reeling. There are some wise folks at Behavioral Diabetes Institute who made pocket-sized etiquette cards which you can hand out
to try to save people from their own big mouths. But you can’t shut people
mouths to making you hurtful and embarrassing.
So there are 5 things which you should not say to a person
with diabetes.
- “Are you well controlled?” – I thought this is just a weird question asked by physicians, but a person with diabetes actually posed this query on my blog last week. First of all, “well controlled” is different for everyone. And if I say ‘NO’ what kind of question are you going to ask me next?
- “can you eat that?” – When you see a person with diabetes eating desserts and sweets? Please considers he following possibilities. That’s person blood sugar level is low, and he/she needs some sugar to remain alive. Diabetes doesn’t mean never eating sugar; diabetes means balance blood sugar levels with food, insulin, medications and exercise. And people now using artificial sweeteners to deal with the situation.
- “Hahahaa look at the sweets I just ate! I surely have diabetes now!” – Thank god! That’s not how it actually works. All varieties of diabetes are caused by a whole bunch of environmental and genetic factors, So sweets and desserts probably won’t do you in. But when you talk like that, you’re forcing the idea that people with diabetes causing their diabetes by themselves, and that maybe they deserve it. And no one really deserves to be a diabetic do they? So please just be quiet and continue eating your sweets and desserts. Thy look delicious.
- “If you eat better and exercise more, you’ll get better” – A healthy diet and exercise probably makes everyone better, to a good extent. But it is not sufficient to cure any kind of diabetes. Peoples who claim that they cured type 2 diabetes by exercise – or by healthy diet – still have diabetes. Just to intake sweets with the best sugar free tablets won’t cure diabetes. So yes you can get better results. But we can never make diabetes go away.
- “I got you some sugar-free candy!” – People are used to say even they know that you are suffering from diabetes the best answer for this: Thanks! I’ll see you in a week, when I emerge from the bathroom.
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