Let's conspire to ignite all the souls that would die just to feel alive
A paper I found in PubMed called Projection of the Future Diabetes Burden in the United States through 2060 projects that by 2060, the number of U.S. adults with diagnosed diabetes will nearly triple to 60.6 million, exceeding any prior predictions. The authors stressed the need for the health care industry to understand the future burden of diabetic care, and to plan accordingly. A burden for those not substantially profiting, and a flaming chaotic disaster for the inflicted masses, indeed.
Diabetes has quadrupled in the last three decades, according to the paper Global Aetiology and Epidemiology of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and its Complications. The International Diabetes Federation Facts and Figures Report states that currently 463 million adults live with diabetes worldwide, with cases estimated to rise to 700 million by 2045. Millions of people currently die annually as a direct result of diabetes, and grievously its prevalence is growing in children, teens and young adults, possibly involving dire complications at a young age. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, stroke and lower limb amputation. I've also covered the irrefutable association between diabetes and Alzheimer's and other neuro-degenerative diseases, as well as mental illness, in other posts.
Your health, your key to freedom, is an individual choice that can define a large part of your existence. Poor health can make you feel like a cog in a machine, where you're limited in your experience of life's pleasures and in an endless cycle of dependency. Maya Angelou said: "Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." Unfortunately, it seems that it can be the human condition to not transform until we've reached absolute rock bottom. You are worthy of health in your mind and body, and the true pleasures and freedoms it provides to yourself and others.
Before I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, I was really going through it for years and I couldn't pinpoint why. Suffice to say, some things were a little off before ketoacidosis and complete pancreatic shut down came into play. On many rough nights I’d listen to Eckhart Tolle meditations. They were so very helpful for me to consistently listen to at such a desperate time. My favorite was listening to him read his chapters on Silence and Stillness, The Now, Acceptance and Surrender and Suffering and the End of Suffering. Someone on YouTube had put Carbon Based Lifeform's (a Swedish mellow electronic band) song 20 Minutes in the background to him reading these chapters. They were exactly what I needed - they genuinely relaxed me.
Even within the seemingly most unacceptable and painful situation is concealed a deeper good, and within every disaster is contained the seed of grace.
When you fully accept that you don't know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind, and that is when a greater intelligence can operate through you.
I did not know the answers. I did just as much research as I do now trying to understand the genesis of my symptoms, and insulin resistance and blood sugar irregularity never came up on my radar. I was thin. I was at the gym daily. Did I watch what I ate? No, because I thought diabetes solely came to lethargic people struggling with their weight.
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