{"id":35471,"date":"2014-03-05T08:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T13:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35471"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:47:20","slug":"got-diabetes-what-you-oughta-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=35471","title":{"rendered":"Got diabetes? What you oughta do\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Once, my father and I were at a party when he inadvertently taught me a valuable lesson about dealing with \u201chelpful\u201d people. As a diabetic I run into a lot of helpful people; by which I mean strangers and acquaintances who eagerly provide me with <a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/feature\/unsolicited-advice-people-with-diabetes-hate-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">free yet priceless advice<\/a> on how to live with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou have the diabetes? My aunt had that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOh yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYou don\u2019t need to have it. My aunt, she cured herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDid she now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cCeleries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cExcuse me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFrom celery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat you oughta do is drink five cups of liquefied celery a day, every day for two weeks. You put the celery in a blender\u2014an aluminum blender\u2014for ten minutes. That\u2019s ten minutes minimum, until it liquefies. Then down the hatch and, bam! No more diabetes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Anyway. My father and I were at this party and I stepped away to get some food. While I was gone a woman who advocated Echinacea enemas and probably wore hemp underwear cornered my father\u2014who is a diehard meat and potatoes kind of guy\u2014in conversation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Uh oh, I thought looking across the room at them, trouble brewing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By the time I got back the woman was lost in the rapture of full conversion mode. She was ticking through the benefits of aromatherapy, acupuncture, homeopathy, reflexology and half a dozen other -ologies that, she insisted, would vastly improve the state of my father\u2019s mental and physical health, She ended her pitch for perfection by telling my father, as a service mind you, that his pot roast was no better to his body than rat poison.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAlternative medicine probably helps and is probably good for you,\u201d my father said to the woman. \u201cUnless, of course, you\u2019re gut shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWell,\u201d the woman said, \u201cI suppose that\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And with that, the two of them found a middle ground. They came to a place where they could both agree and disagree and both emerge after sharing their viewpoint having been heard and appreciated by the other.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These days, that\u2019s what I aim for when I am lectured about how I do not need medication to treat my diabetes when people are successfully treating, and even curing themselves, with cucumbers, or ginger, or chromium, or fenugreek, or bitter melon, or nigella sativia, or \u2026. whatever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThank you for sharing that information,\u201d I said recently after sitting through a what-you-oughta-do talk. \u201cIt might help improve my diabetes. But, in my case my body doesn\u2019t produce any insulin at all, so I still need to take insulin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNone at all?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cNope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThat sucks. Then I guess you need to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cYeah,\u201d I said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of like being gut shot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOh,\u201d I said, smiling to myself. \u201cIt\u2019s just something my father used to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Got diabetes? 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