Another person with Insulinitis who supports a name change for type 1 diabetes
Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
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If anyone knows how to get in touch with Riva
Greenberg, please let me know so I can send
her my work on the proposed new names for
all glucose anomalies.
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by Riva Greenberg
as posted at the Huffington Post
in an article mostly regarding type 1 and
type 2 diabetes
June 15, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/rivagreenberg-type1namechange
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Excerpts:
I, like many of my fellow type 1s, would like to
see type 1 and type 2 diabetes have different
names.
...
I sure would like to see a non-invasive blood
testing meter and oral insulin, as I've been
reading about for years.
Recognition of type 1 as a significantly different
disease than type 2 will help the general public
understand that our diabetes can only be cured
by more research ...
It's not a major chore to rename type 1 diabetes.
It's been done before. In 1997 type 1 diabetes
was called "juvenile diabetes," reflecting that
mostly children got it.
...
My other reason for wanting type 1 diabetes to
have it's own name is deeply personal and emo-
tional. I'm truly tired of how little people know
about the intense, exhausting and daily effort
of managing type 1 diabetes.
...
It's time to rename type 1 diabetes.
...
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As stated in detail in my recent work on this matter
over the past few months, it's long past time to bury
the diabetes/diabetic core word and multi-word
phrases and replace all glucose anomalies with dis-
tinct clarifying new non-diabetes/non-diabetic names.
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Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
C.ure I.nsulinitis A.ssociation
http://prohuman.net/cureinsulinitisassociation.htm
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pi...@popper.com
whining and learn to live with diabetes. Your form of diabetes is not
more noble nor demanding then other types and the underlying common
factors of diabetes provide information that all types can benefit
knowing.
Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
<pi...@popper.com> wrote...
> Actually it said many of the things others have
> been telling you [...]
Actually, it said many of the things I've been
telling you, and which you've thus far rejected.
Riva Greenberg quotes from the article which,
for reasons unknown, failed to register with
you:
http://tinyurl.com/rivagreenberg-type1namechange
o "I, like many of my fellow type 1s, would like to
see type 1 and type 2 diabetes have different
names."
o "It's not a major chore to rename type 1 diabetes.
It's been done before."
o "It's time to rename type 1 diabetes."
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pi...@popper.com
> been telling you [...]
"Actually, it said many of the things I've been telling you, and which
you've thus far rejected. Riva Greenberg quotes from the article which,
for reasons unknown, failed to register with you:
http://tinyurl.com/rivagreenberg-type1namechange
o "I, like many of my fellow type 1s, would like to
see type 1 and type 2 diabetes have different
names.""
And those few remarks following the points she discussed at some length
which are those psychosocial not scientific nor medical reasons I have
been mentioning as to why this should be the case. Which for some
reason escaped your notice.
Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
>> <pi...@popper.com> wrote ...
>>> Actually it said many of the things others have
>>> been telling you [...]
> Pro-Humanist FREELOVER replied ...
>> "Actually, it said many of the things I've been telling you, and which
>> you've thus far rejected. Riva Greenberg quotes from the article which,
>> for reasons unknown, failed to register with you:
>> http://tinyurl.com/rivagreenberg-type1namechange
>>
>> o "I, like many of my fellow type 1s, would like to
>> see type 1 and type 2 diabetes have different
>> names.""
<pi...@popper.com> replied ...
> And those few remarks following the points she discussed at some length
> which are those psychosocial not scientific nor medical reasons I have
> been mentioning as to why this should be the case. Which for some
> reason escaped your notice.
Science, the state of knowing, knowledge as
distinguished from ignorance or misunderstanding.
Certainly you can see that misunderstanding and
ignorance results from the use of the diabetes
word without clarifiers, said usage prevalent
throughout medical literature, popular media,
and the internet.
That's about as unscientific and as medically
confusing a situation as can exist, and that's
exactly what you have with the way in which
the current term is over-used without clarifiers,
a result of having been the predominant word
for *all* high glucose conditions until the 3rd
and 4th decades of the 20th century.
Pyschosocial (good word, by the way), science,
and medical reasons support new words that
clearly and unequivocally distinguish between
the assorted types of high glucose conditions.
>> o "It's not a major chore to rename type 1 diabetes.
>> It's been done before."
>>
>> o "It's time to rename type 1 diabetes."
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