For #WorldDiabetesDay , let’s take a moment to remember that no one sweets their way into diabetes even though our culture loves to blame people with type 2 diabetes for bringing it onto themselves.
When someone says, “I just ate 2 pieces of cake and probably gave myself diabetes,” that’s not funny. That’s damaging and painful to those who have diabetes. It’s insinuating that those who have diabetes deserve it because they did it to themselves.
We need to consider what we’re inferring by those “jokes and how harmful those jokes are to people living with diabetes. #WorldDiabetesDay
Genetics play a big role in the development of diabetes as does stress and many other factors. We need to stop simplifying this complex disease, and more importantly we need to stop the blaming. #haes
And as @theantidietplan said so perfectly: Diabetes is a complex multifactorial illness and this reductionist way of thinking contributes to weight bias which actually IS associated with increased risk of diabetes and metabolic disease.
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