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Amen! As a diabetic (with a pretty high educational level, mind you) and as I've ingested marijuana before... halfway thru the article, I concluded it was nothi
by dfraser992 8y ago
Amen! As a diabetic (with a pretty high educational level, mind you) and as I've ingested marijuana before... halfway thru the article, I concluded it was nothing but anti-cannabis propaganda. I've deliberately put myself into ketosis for the fat burning effects and knowing how DKA develops, never had any issues - because I made sure to take my insulin.
My guess on what is going on is a) lower educational level diabetics b) they don't really understand the biochemistry of things, the medical stuff c) they probably (I'm pretty sure) are drinking as well -- and alcohol is 10x at least if not more a larger factor in bad control of one's diabetes.
Something I've had to acknowledge as I've gotten older. I was never much of a big drinker, but I've have noticed it has gotten more problematic over the years and my advice now for young diabetics would be to really be super conscious of your drinking habits. Alcohol causes all sorts of lower level not so obvious issues with managing things properly - blood sugar levels get really out of sorts for days until the liver gets back to normal operating procedure.
So if the study didn't account for the use of alcohol and how excessive it might be by the subjects (especially in the lower classes) then they ignored a very large factor in how diabetic related problems might develop. And the article was so obviously very sloppily written and the biases in it were quite obvious given how things were phrased --> propaganda.