Reply #50: The regulation of blood glucose level is very complicated. [View All]

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Additionaly, the treatment of diabetes, in both the East and West, is much more diverse than you appear to realize.
It's not as though there is only one treatment practiced in each region! :rofl:

It's non-controversial knowledge that traditional, unconventional, and so-called modern Western varieties of diabetes treatments are shared among the East and West. From your post, it isn't evident you're aware that communication and commerce have been taking place between the East and West for at least several years now. There are, of course, measurable differences in proportion of sundry treatments used in, for example, Beijing and New York.
I remember reading a study published in TDE, the official journal of the American Association of Di­abetes Educators(you should really check it out) that went into some detail, but I won't risk boring you with details too mundane and irrelevant.
I read, for example, that citizens of Beijing are more likely to rely on exercise to regulate their glucose levels than New Yorkers, but are less likely to restrict their diet. Also, that Beijingers primarily rely on Western pills to treat their diabetes. Isn't that fascinating? I bet that sarcastic criticism is really tickling you where it counts, right about now.

To those who believe the civilized East is some mysterious place cordoned off from Western thought & influence where everyones Aunt practices acupuncture, I suspect this information must be quite eye-opening indeed.

Btw, when you said "You are assuming that the Chinese in fact treat diabetes the same way and with the same drugs as the disease is treated in the west", from where on Earth did you acquire that knowledge? You haven't been consulting with magic psychic spoonbenders, have you?
:rofl: