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Because nobody cares about your diabetes and obesity. Lay down that taco and get some fricken exercise, FFS.

What an ignorant post. How exactly does "laying down the taco" help Scott Hanselman and the other million of US citizens who suffer from Type 1 diabetes?

Even if it doesn't, there's a lot more profit in advertising than insulin. The economy would probably function better if diabetes patients were left untreated and die, since the cost saving estimates are quite enormous.

Why should we care more about the economy than we care about people with diabetes?

Isn't the treatment paid by the patients?

That's only a fraction of the costs involved. For one, today’s diabetes patients are tomorrows alzheimer patients.

> today’s diabetes patients are tomorrows alzheimer patients

... possibly. Or they could be tomorrow's cancer patients, or tomorrow's stroke patients, or tomorrow's jack-knifed tractor trailer across three lanes of traffic patients. All those can happen to people without diabetes, too, though; it's part of living.

Sure, I get that. But diabetes and Alzheimer’s are actually related:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/25/bittman-is-a...

Obesity and Type 1 diabetes aren't related...I think @raganwald was thinking about Type 2. For the record, I am not obese, nor are most Type 1 diabetes.

For those with Type 2, yes, exercise and eating right largely solves that (totally different) issue.

There are multiple types of diabetes, one of them being type 1. "The exact cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown. Most likely it is an autoimmune disorder. An infection or some other trigger causes the body to mistakenly attack the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. This kind of disorder can be passed down through families." [1] So how could taco and exercise cure this type of diabetes?

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001350/

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