I’m aware … my extremely blunt response was also in jest
I don’t appreciate your disapproving emoticon. It’s the same face my parents made towards my siblings when they were in trouble.
I feel the same way at my company some days. I work for a Fortune 200 company with over 60 thousand employees the majority of which at least hold Bachelors degrees in something and they use Comic Sans as their default font in all email communication.
I wish I had the balls to try and pull this one off. I would save myself a lot of time.
If you work over 60 hours a week long enough, your balls get really huge.
Ahh. I see now that I don’t have the requisite experience points to take on this mission.
Wacist.
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I meant the relationship between size of balls and amount of time is inversely related. I was kidding about how I don’t have the time to not have productive meetings.
Haha! We should form a comedy team, where our schtick is to stand there on stage, looking blankly at each other.
The expression is specifically labeled 'EXPRESSIONLESS," so that’s what it is. Also, are you sure it was your siblings getting the face? Because it’s fishy that you’d know what they looked like straight-on if they weren’t laying the look on YOU
Very fishy.
We’ll murder!!
I know! Who wouldn’t pay for that??
Pay for Murder?? Now we’re cooking…lots of people’d be interested in that act
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Going to add a controversial one here that pisses me off:
The way some fitness website/magazine articles repeatedly mention diabetes in a broad brush stroke to describe lazy/out-of-shape people in general. All this shows is an ignorance of the disease.
Not all Type 2 diabetics get the disease due to obesity (in fact it is only a risk factor and less than 1/3 of obese people will develop it). There are many other risk factors. Also, Type 2 is not a curable or 100% avoidable disease. It may be controllable without medicine through strict diet and exercise, but in some people this may never be the case.
I will use myself and family as example:
I was diagnosed with Type II (may actually be type 1.5) at the age of 24. I had my physical blood done the previous year and everything was fine, A1C in range and fasting blood glucose under 100. A year later, I hadn’t changed my lifestyle or diet significantly, I go get checked and my A1C is over 8% and my fasting blood sugar had sky-rocketed to just over 300. My doctor at the time who specialized as a GP in diabetic treatment said with that big of a jump in just 1 year, there was nothing in my lifestyle that would have caused that change, the disease simply “turned on”. (Thankfully, I have it under control now due to exercise and the right combo of meds).
Doctor stated this was likely due to genetics from my father’s side of the family. My dad is diabetic, his sister became diabetic after beating breast cancer and having a double mastectomy (doctor’s theory is that the chemo treatments kicked off the diabetes), my grandmother on that side and all 10 of her siblings (men and women) had diabetes and only about 3 of them were severely overweight.
The general feeling that diabetes in adults is an exclusively self-induced disease is one of the biggest lies perpetuated by a lot of people. If gaining weight is the cause, it can usually been seen as a gradual rise over a few years in fasting blood sugar measurements - this is the only time I believe the disease could be prevented from beginning.
Please don’t generalize about diabetes as a “you did this to yourself” condition.
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Please post links to the articles you’re referring to, because I haven’t seen that happen.
What does generally get discussed when diabetes is mentioned in an article is that insulin resistance/poor insulin sensitivity can lead to diabetes; that obesity and genetics are both significant risk factors; and that proper training and nutrition can significantly reduce the risk of diabetes.
I’m pretty comfortable in saying that there has never been an article saying “you gave yourself diabetes because you’re lazy”.
I have seen an article discussing the role of insulin sensitivity on developing diabetes and clarifying misconceptions: T Nation Content - T NATION
And an article discussing how it’s not simply developed from a high sugar diet: T Nation Content - T NATION
And there have been more than a few discussing how obesity is sometimes simply due to inactivity, poor decisions, and can be seen as a “you did this to yourself” condition. But not diabetes.
Maybe I am misreading some of the articles due to my own confirmation bias (since I deal with this crap on a daily basis).
I had not seen the two articles you linked previously and both are well written.
T-nation in general does a better job than other websites on this topic for sure.
I do agree with this.
I was trying to find some articles on Google from fitness sites that claim “cures” to diabetes, but it appears Google has improved their algorithm and eliminated those results from the first few pages of results (way to go Google).
I believe that’s what’s happening. Understandable given your personal history with it, but still bogus claims to make about T Nation articles/authors.
Like when people try to say they’re “always” plugging products. The concrete facts show that it’s not the case at all (Fact: 80-85% of articles don’t say a single thing about supps).
[I guess that counts as my thing that pisses me off, ha.]
Does it piss you off b/c you think they should plug products more? Very confusing Chris
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Good points. I edited my previous post.
A lot of in bad information is in the forums of some websites and the cesspool of twitter regarding diabetes.
From my experience reading articles here compared to other sites that push product (not just fitness related) it doesn’t come off as pushy or aggressive selling at all.
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Sometimes it’s good to just get some stuff off of your chest.
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