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Apr. 25, 2006 Well, I have had many e-mails demanding a retraction of my last article: Soda = Shots. That will never happen. I hit a nerve. First, I will adress the ignorance of people claiming I have no experience nor knowledge of the disease diabetes. I have a great deal of experience and knowledge with people in my own family with both types of diabetes. I also have Polysictic Ovarian Syndrom (PCOS) with insulin resistance. I'm on my way to getting type 2 diabetes (with injecting insulin in my blood stream according to my personal physician) but I was told by my doctor most likely I've been insulin resistant all my life. You might say I was born with "bad genes"; since type one diabetes is in my family through my paternal grand-mother. Then, the development of type two diabetes was in my paternal grandfather, my father, my mother, my maternal grandmother, several great aunts, a great uncle, and it is starting to affect my generation slowly. My family would not be considered obese since the average weight until reaching fifty in my family for men was 180 lbs and for women 150 lbs. I am the only one to be considered over weight at 220 lbs but that is a problem for women with PCOS, because of over producing testosterone. My son is at risk for type one diabetes because his paternal Aunt has type one. And he has a further risk of type two diabetes because of his paternal grandfather and grandmother both have been diagnosed with the disease. I had to find away to stop him from craving the liquid sugar that is found in soda. He saw his grandfather pricking his finger four times a day when I lived with my father. But it did not sink in that drinking liquid sugars and eating processed sugars trigger the disease; until I came up with SODA = SHOTS. Every person I know with type two diabetes has to monitor their blood sugar. That means a needle is shot into the skin so that the person can collect the blood, then the blood is placed on a strip so a blood sugar monitor can read how much sugar is in the blood. I believe, as a parent, I have to tell my child about diabetes, that is his fate, if he decides to beg, or buy in the future foods that are not good for him. Soda is not good food, it is liquid sugar and will go straight into the blood stream making the pancreas work harder than it needs to and after years of abusing soda a person can develop diabetes.
There will be no apology to the parents of type one
diabetes because I do know that disease is genetic
with enviromental triggers. Type two is also
triggered by enviromental factors, too. Both are a
horrible diseases to live with and both kill slowly.
But if we can help prevent one, why not try. SODA =
SHOTS, period. Soda helps inject fast sugar into the
body and rapidly raises blood sugar levels. Soda
contributes to becoming FAT. Why buy a product that
bad for our kids?
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