Trust Diabetes Information On The Internet At Your Own Risk!
While millions of diabetics are hitting away on their keyboards, looking for the latest and greatest diabetes cure out there from the internet; the basic tenets of diabetes management...
lose fat, eat a low GI diet, and stick to unprocessed foods, remain unchanged.
In fact, a paper in The Archives of Internal Medicine during September, 2010 came out publicly against all the misinformation floating around the net regarding Type 2 diabetes.
However, most of the information on the net for diabetics is about as reliable as a speech from many executives or even, dare I say, politicians.
Of course there are exceptions (present company, of course), but it's important to evaluate these factors before buying into a piece of "neat info" you found on a diabetes blog.
Credentials: This matters more than anything else.
Who would you rather trust: someone experienced in helping diabetes patients getting their life under control, or some guy in his underwear banging out articles from his laptop? In all seriousness, credentials do, and should, carry a lot of weight.
The wrong diabetes information isn't benign...
it's downright harmful.
Someone with medical credentials has their career on the line...
so they're not going to tell you anything that's not backed by the science.
Gut Check: Have you ever read anything on the Internet about diabetes, discounted it instantly as hogwash, yet wanted to try it anyway? Marketers, which do include marketers to diabetics, are in the business of telling you what you want to hear.
You know more about diabetes than you probably realize...
if something sounds fishy, it probably is.
Too Good To Be True: "Instant diabetes cure" are three little words tossed around surprisingly often on the Internet these days.
Of course, these "salesmen" have no interest in helping you cure your diabetes, they just want what you've got in your wallet.
Reversing diabetes is possible...
but it does take time and effort.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is just flat out telling you what you want to hear.
Hype: One of shady marketer's favorite tricks is to take a small study (usually with animals), and make the results sound like they have Darwinian-like implications.
As someone who reads diabetes science every chance she gets (don't laugh, it's true), one thing is clear...
breakthroughs are exceedingly rare.
Also, new diabetes treatments don't generally come from a single research study.
This isn't 1850 and Lord Kelvin isn't playing with beakers in his basement anymore.
21st century science requires millions of dollars, dozens of researchers, and (most importantly), numerous studies with similar findings to confirm the initial results.
So the next time you stumble across a blog post detailing a breakthrough "secret" study that cures diabetes in 5 minutes, be sure to don your skepticism hat before reading on.
lose fat, eat a low GI diet, and stick to unprocessed foods, remain unchanged.
In fact, a paper in The Archives of Internal Medicine during September, 2010 came out publicly against all the misinformation floating around the net regarding Type 2 diabetes.
However, most of the information on the net for diabetics is about as reliable as a speech from many executives or even, dare I say, politicians.
Of course there are exceptions (present company, of course), but it's important to evaluate these factors before buying into a piece of "neat info" you found on a diabetes blog.
Credentials: This matters more than anything else.
Who would you rather trust: someone experienced in helping diabetes patients getting their life under control, or some guy in his underwear banging out articles from his laptop? In all seriousness, credentials do, and should, carry a lot of weight.
The wrong diabetes information isn't benign...
it's downright harmful.
Someone with medical credentials has their career on the line...
so they're not going to tell you anything that's not backed by the science.
Gut Check: Have you ever read anything on the Internet about diabetes, discounted it instantly as hogwash, yet wanted to try it anyway? Marketers, which do include marketers to diabetics, are in the business of telling you what you want to hear.
You know more about diabetes than you probably realize...
if something sounds fishy, it probably is.
Too Good To Be True: "Instant diabetes cure" are three little words tossed around surprisingly often on the Internet these days.
Of course, these "salesmen" have no interest in helping you cure your diabetes, they just want what you've got in your wallet.
Reversing diabetes is possible...
but it does take time and effort.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is just flat out telling you what you want to hear.
Hype: One of shady marketer's favorite tricks is to take a small study (usually with animals), and make the results sound like they have Darwinian-like implications.
As someone who reads diabetes science every chance she gets (don't laugh, it's true), one thing is clear...
breakthroughs are exceedingly rare.
Also, new diabetes treatments don't generally come from a single research study.
This isn't 1850 and Lord Kelvin isn't playing with beakers in his basement anymore.
21st century science requires millions of dollars, dozens of researchers, and (most importantly), numerous studies with similar findings to confirm the initial results.
So the next time you stumble across a blog post detailing a breakthrough "secret" study that cures diabetes in 5 minutes, be sure to don your skepticism hat before reading on.
