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Your interactions with mechanics and doctors imply a closer relationship than perhaps that of the OP. My typical experience with is closer to the OP's--that is

by reedlaw 13y ago

Your interactions with mechanics and doctors imply a closer relationship than perhaps that of the OP. My typical experience with is closer to the OP's--that is they have a lot of vehicles/patients to see and don't go in to too much detail on each visit.

sliverstorm 13y ago
Many of them don't go into detail because 99% of customers don't give the slightest fuck. Show genuine interest, strike up conversation, and you can sometimes get a lot out of them. In any case, service life in cars is usually determined by a couple key things: The design of the system, driving conditions, and service. You may feel like you're being blown off when the mechanic says "obey the service intervals and avoid short trips", but that's 99.9% of what you can do to make the car last. (Special corner cases are widely-understood and well-documented, such as the impact of very high operating temperatures in automatic transmissions during towing)
jimgardener 13y ago
my mom(who was a primary school teacher) had been a diabetic for about 10 years.The doctors who treated her told her to eat more wheat based meals instead of rice based ones and told her to increase the dosage of tablets when sugar level crossed 200 .No doctor ever told her about carb counting which IMO, was the first thing she should have been told.I came upon carb counting from some articles on the internet.She is trying this for the last couple of years and now her ppbs is 107.
- montecarl 13y ago
  It seems that reducing dietary carbohydrates should be the primary treatment of most diabetics. Eating too many carbohydrates seems to be the cause for most people. The conversation with the doctor/nurse should go something like: You have diabetes. Your body has become insulin resistant because you ate too much sugary/starchy stuff. Eat less of it and you will get better.

by reedlaw 13y ago

sliverstorm 13y ago

Many of them don't go into detail because 99% of customers don't give the slightest fuck. Show genuine interest, strike up conversation, and you can sometimes get a lot out of them. In any case, service life in cars is usually determined by a couple key things: The design of the system, driving conditions, and service. You may feel like you're being blown off when the mechanic says "obey the service intervals and avoid short trips", but that's 99.9% of what you can do to make the car last. (Special corner cases are widely-understood and well-documented, such as the impact of very high operating temperatures in automatic transmissions during towing)

jimgardener 13y ago

my mom(who was a primary school teacher) had been a diabetic for about 10 years.The doctors who treated her told her to eat more wheat based meals instead of rice based ones and told her to increase the dosage of tablets when sugar level crossed 200 .No doctor ever told her about carb counting which IMO, was the first thing she should have been told.I came upon carb counting from some articles on the internet.She is trying this for the last couple of years and now her ppbs is 107.

montecarl 13y ago
It seems that reducing dietary carbohydrates should be the primary treatment of most diabetics. Eating too many carbohydrates seems to be the cause for most people. The conversation with the doctor/nurse should go something like: You have diabetes. Your body has become insulin resistant because you ate too much sugary/starchy stuff. Eat less of it and you will get better.