Self Monitoring Blood Glucose Benefits All Patients with Diabetes

From "Diabetes In Control" newsletter ----

Well, no one can contol "anything" if they don't know what it is tghat they're controlling and that certainly applies to "blood glucose levels"!
The whole point of this article should be intuitively obvious without a huge amount of study or thought, so why isn't it?Or "why" hasn't it been?

There are some good recommendations in this article that sound suspiciously like what some of us have been advocating on this list. It isn't perfect, but it's certainly a step in the right direction.

Gee, I wonder how long it'll take the ADA ato come around???

Whole article at:

You remind me of the time when I had just begun setting type. I was working for Alan R. Liss, a company that published medical and scholarly journals.

One of the first articles I set in type asked whether a dog's severe wound would heal better if the dog was well nourished or poorly nourished. I don't remember how many dogs they damaged in order to determine the truth of this matter, but it was at least a couple of dozen.

To me, this was so obvious as to not require any study whatsoever. Maybe these same researchers have gone on to study self-monitoring diabetics?

Dianne

Hi, Gretchen. I didn't need to know that!!!! What kind of people can
justify this behaviour. No wonder Hitler's Germany produce such
dreadful things. We have to value all of life and I can't see how one
can justify inflicting such amazing cruelty in the name of science.
No wonder people campaign so violently against such cruelty. Good on
them. This did nothing for my Christmas spirit. I was always taught
the "end doesn't justify the means". Jean in S. Australia.
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Of course what is done with pills to living mental patients has some
parallel, or is it similarity?
Robert Whitaker's Mad in America has done an incredible expose of
contemporary mistreatment of mental patients, especially the use of
chemicals that induce brain damage and other ghastly side effects,
all legal and scientific rationalized to save some people money.

More refreshing is the History of Bethlem[or Bedlam] by Jonathan
Andrews a book that costs $350 and most likely not in your library or
most libraries reveals how after 600 years Bedlam has learned to give
mental patients adequate humane care. They actually help mental
patients and it is said that poor countries do better with their
mental patients than the USA. We really have not moved very far from
the Middle Ages in the treatment of mental patients. This certainly
is good news for Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays.

While I have some compassion for animals, I have even more for humans.

Joe