Propaganda Posters For Diabetes

Last night, my husband showed me this photo series (I believe it’s titled “Kim Jong Il Looking At Stuff”) and it cracked me up. Here are a couple of my favorites — you can see more at the original site.

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Part of my enjoyment may be due to the fact that, as a child, I occasionally dressed in a way that made me resemble the Dear Leader:

What is that? A cigar?

But it also got me thinking: this sort of matter-of-fact, distant, omnipotent tone is how I sometimes feel like acting toward my diabetes. So I thought I’d introduce a challenge to all you diabetics out there looking for a way to procrastinate. Open up Comic Life (or the PC equivalent) and make your own diabetes propaganda poster, then send it to me at reluctantdiabetic[at]gmail and I’ll post them to the blog. I just made one myself — basic, but it’s a start. Great Leaders of Diabetes, I know you can do better.

Catherine Price

Catherine Price (www.catherine-price.com) was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. She has written for publications including The Best American Science Catherine Price is a professional journalist who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. Her work has been featured in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Health Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, and Outside, among others. A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism

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Catherine Price

Catherine Price was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. She has written for publications including The Best American Science Catherine Price is a professional journalist who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes when she was 22 years old. Her work has been featured in publications including The Best American Science Writing, The New York Times, Popular Science, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Post Magazine, Salon, Slate, Men’s Journal, Health Magazine, The Oprah Magazine, and Outside, among others. A graduate of Yale and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism