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09-10-2006, 10:02 PM #11
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Re: Report: American diet making immigrants fat
Originally Posted by Brian503a
The portions of the article I quoted mention diabetes and I want to bring this up because I have a child with Type I. She was diagnosed at age three and Type I is genetic and has nothing to do with diet or exercise such as Type II does. My daughter has never been overweight in her life. Throughout the years of dealing with her diabetes, I've heard from educators, doctors as well as school personnel that diabetes is on the rise among children and adults, both types I and II. The Type II because of poor eating habits, lack of exercise and obesity both among children and adults. Type II used to be rare amongst youths.
Six years ago when my daughter was diagnosed with the juvenile type, I was told that it usually develops by the age of 30. But, recently at a diabetic education fair, a government health dept. was offering free blood screenings for all adults under the age of 45 (who are related to those with Type I) to see if they had the genetics to develop type I diabetes. Apparently, there are occasional adults over 30 now who still develop Type I that requires insulin to live.
Regardless, this is a life-threatening incurable disease - especially Type I -that is costly to maintain with insulin pumps and/or syringes, insulin and numerous other supplies. My daughter has private health insurance but the co-pays add up for supplies as well as doctor visits. I never did an estimate but my guess is the monthly amount for her diabetes in prescriptions, over-the-counter, etc. exceeds $500 monthly including what the insurance company pays. This doesn't include extras such as a rare emergency room visit. Insulin pumps themselves cost several thousand dollars, at least the one my daughter was put on a few years ago was $6,000 not including all the supplies.
Now according to this article, add up all the immigrants (many illegals here sponging off Medicaid and ERs) who are receiving reduced or free health care at taxpaper expense. Dang right, they need to exercise and go on diets and take care of their health and their childrens so they don't burden US citizens with their poor health habits. And, if they are illegal, US taxpayers shouldn't be paying even one penny for either Type I or II diabetes. Let the leaders of their home countries pay their health care costs.People who take issue with control of population do not understand that if it is not done in a graceful way, nature will do it in a brutal fashion - Henry Kendall
End foreign aid until America fixes it's own poverty first - me
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