{"id":2197,"date":"2006-03-14T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/preventable-i-d\/"},"modified":"2006-03-14T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T14:58:10","slug":"preventable-i-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/preventable-i-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventable? I don’t think so."},"content":{"rendered":"

BlogHer did a trackback to my site, in a post that made the following statement?<\/p>\n

Diabetes: A Wake-up Call | BlogHer [beta]<\/a>
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\nIn most cases, it can be prevented, so why aren’t we doing more to combat it?<\/em><\/p>\n

ARGH! In most cases, it can be prevented? When will people get it through their thick heads that in most cases it can not be prevented.<\/p>\n

First, she links to a bunch of other diabetes sites — those run by Type 1 diabetics, and we all know that Type 1 can’t be prevented until we can order our genetics and our environment.<\/p>\n

I believe that it can’t be prevented in most Type 2 diabetics either. My genetics definately showed my doctors and I that Type 2 is coming, but I certainly wasn’t able to prevent gettiing it, and I really believe that it is today’s technologies that have kept me from cardio vascular complications so far, but that doesn’t mean that I won’t succumb too, just like my father and his parents.<\/p>\n

There have even been some recent studies that seem to show that all we can really do is to delay the onset of Type 2 diabetecs, but not completely avoid it unless we die of something else first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BlogHer did a trackback to my site, in a post that made the following statement? Diabetes: A Wake-up Call | BlogHer [beta] In most cases, it can be prevented, so why aren’t we doing more to combat it? ARGH! In most cases, it can be prevented? When will people get it through their thick heads […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}