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Stolen shamelessly from the Facebook profile of George Takei (aka Mr. Sulu).
The topic of type 2 diabetes has gotten a lot of attention in the past week. While I’m happy to see the disease getting more general exposure, and Americans gaining a better understanding about the disease, I have found myself extremely frustrated that its quickly jumped onto that growing list of conditions and problems that can be solved by taking “medicine” (there’s a pill for that, right?).
Prevention is THE BEST medicine. Type 2 diabetes can often be cured without a needle or a pill. But there lies the challenge. It takes a ton of discipline and often times a person has to undo decades of bad habits to get healthy. From my perspective, most unhealthy Americans — whether they have type 2 diabetes or not — lack the ability to change their lifestyles to make themselves well.
Sure you could eat like crap, avoid exercise and otherwise take very bad care of yourself and never have a problem. A lot of people do. But that is essentially playing Russian roulette with your future. You could skate by “scott-free.” The alternative: someday in your future you could find yourself in a doctor’s office staring at a dramatically altered future full of alarming news and warnings. Unpleasant realities that could include a loss of vision, a lack of feeling in your hands and feet, the loss of a toe, or worse, losing a limb. My father was a type 2 diabetic, and I had a front row seat with how evil the disease can be.
While a lot depends on genetic makeup and a predisposition to the disease, type 2 diabetes does not play favorites. It needs no celebrity messenger, no messiah.
Does it need a cure? Before we cure diabetes, we need to cure our own ignorance toward our own health. The things that prevent type 2 diabetes are largely within our control; diet, exercise, sleep. Be your own cure. Never get diabetes in the first place.
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Headphone Wearin’ Hipsters Are In Danger
Tobyotter via flickr
While it’s not yet time for a music festival or rubber wristbands, hipsters are in trouble.
Those iPod listenin’, skinny-jeans wearin’, too kool for skool — but never too hot to wear a wool beanie — hipsters are getting taken out at an increasingly alarming rate as serious injuries involving pedestrians wearing headphones have more than tripled since 2004, a U.S. study showed.
In 70 percent of cases, the headphone-wearing pedestrians died as a result of the injuries hey sustained from being hit by traffic. Nearly 70% of those that died in the accidents were under the age of 30. Surprisingly, almost half of the vehicles involved in the accidents were trains and not cars.
The rapid increase in these accidents directly correlates to the rapid growth of the MP3 player market.
Experts call this growing trend “in-attentional blindness“. (Is there a pill for that yet?)
When told of the growing trend a grumpy old man responded, “They just need to pay attention to what the hell they are doing and where the hell they are going.”
So hipsters, turn the music down from 11, mind the gap, and pay attention to what you are doing and where you are headed.
No Dark Vador burger for this guy
A long time ago, in a galaxy not too far away someone made the miraculous discovery that combining two previously uncombined food items — chocolate & peanut butter is pure magic.
Hence we have Reece’s peanut butter cups and a whole host of other similar products.
Now comes a similar approach from a French fast food chain. Quick is introducing a line of Star Wars themed burgers like the Dark Vador, which predominantly features a freakishly dark bun.
Bon Appetit?