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If my teeth aren't rotting (they're not) and I'm not getting fat (I'm not) then why shouldn't I? (I do.) It wasn't exactly obvious to me that it would be deplet

• silentbicycle 17y ago
  Diabetes.
  • Shooter 17y ago
    My wife works in the medical field, and she deals with many diabetic patients. Until recently, I underestimated how horrible this disease can actually be. I knew it could be serious, but I mainly just thought about people having to watch what they eat and having to monitor their blood sugar levels. Seeing the photos of the huge, oozing wounds that never heal and hearing the stories about renal failure, blindness, and amputations have certainly made me more aware of my diet. Eating one large, high GI meal per day (as I used to do) is basically a ticket to diabetes (and probably Alzheimers, which many researchers are arguing is essentially just another type of diabetes.) I now eat 5-6 smaller meals per day, and I try to balance them and monitor the GI load. There are new studies that indicate that you can do permanent damage to your brain by eating large, sugary meals even BEFORE you have any indication that you are doing so. Some people have damaged their brains even before they register as pre-diabetic on blood tests.