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In reply to the discussion: Big Pharma Sells Risky Meds We Don’t Need for Disorders It Made Up That We Don’t Have [View all]SheilaT
(23,156 posts)five or six years ago. I forget exactly when.
She's always struggled with her weight, and we all understand that being overweight is perhaps the single largest risk factor in type 2 diabetes.
In any case, she attacked her disease head on. She lost weight. She changed how she ate. She exercised more. Several years ago, when asking her about how things were going, she said that the nurse practitioner she was working with was totally amazed, because in that nurse's experience, NO ONE had ever done the things they should have done.
The result? Today my sister no longer has diabetes. Her official medical record shows that she has a history of diabetes, but not the disease itself. That is one disease that can be conquered by lifestyle changes.