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Two of my cats have been hypoglycemia-alert cats, waking me up if my blood sugar drops while I'm asleep. They've both since passed away and I'm waiting to see if either of the cats I have now will take up the job.
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They believe I was fat as a child and that my parents must have fed me too much junk food and/or that my school must have had pop and junk food in vending machines. (My parents did not feed me junk food and my school had no vending machines.)
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I have diabetes. I did not get it from junk food or pop. I think I'd had one can of Coke in my entire life before I was diagnosed at age five. My diabetes is an autoimmune disease, but because of lines like yours about "diabetic friends," people automatically assume I got diabetes because I was fat, because my parents fed me junk food when I was a kid, or because I drank too much sugared pop. How about you stop using stereotypes and inform yourself about diabetes.
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Regardless of what you meant, or of the context, diabetes is still no joke and "delicious diabetes inducing goodness" is not funny nor is it a nice thing to say. There is in fact evidence that insulin resistance, the major component of type 2 diabetes, causes obesity, rather than the other way around. Fast food by itself does not cause diabetes. Genetics cause diabetes. A person with a genetic history of diabetes who is thin is much more likely to get diabetes than a person with no history of diabetes who is fat.

Diabetes is not a joke and not a term to be thrown around lightly. It is a disease that can, in fact, kill you. It causes blindness. It causes kidney failure. It is a leading cause of non-traumatic amputations. It takes years off a person's life, and tossing around "diabetes-inducing goodness" is not funny. People don't just wake up one day and say, "I think I'm going to give myself the diabeetus." As someone who has lived with diabetes for more than 40 years and who is probably going to lose my kidneys to it one of these days, I do not appreciate this form of "humour", regardless of the context.
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"Delicious diabetes." Yeah, about that. I have diabetes. I've had it since I was five. I was not obese. In fact, I was dangerously thin. I hardly ever ate fast food. Many people with diabetes can tell you similar things. Diabetes is not fun and it is not something to make fun of. Try making fun of another disease for a change and see how people react.
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