Being newly diagnosed this conversation has come up many times between close family members and myself.
I just recently straightened my dad out. He has a close friend that has diabetes and we all know it, but my dad kept making the comment that he was not taking care of himself because he eat and drinks sugary things like non diet root beer and doesn't watch what he eats.
Now this guy is a little overweight, but not a lot, so I went over the basics and he understands now that we can eat those things, but instead of our body regulating itself we have to do it with injections. I did not go on to tell him that I should limit myself to have good control as quite frankly I do not ant the D police on my back.
Like someone said before people that do not have diabetes should not be expected to now everything about the disease and they will learn from rumors. It is our job to educate them when the timing is proper, although I have gotten sick explaining it to people and I am new to this disease so some of you people must be downright frustrated
