Re: Long but interesting story
A young woman who came to clean my house the other day told me a very
interesting story, just thought I would pass it along. I have a 3 year old
very petite and very active granddaughter, and she has a 3 year old son that
she brought with her to play with my granddaughter while she was cleaning.
Mason is quite overweight, about triple my granddaughter’s size, and she was
telling me her concern about his eating and sleeping habits. My son had told
her that I was diabetic and that’s why she was discussing this with me.
She told me that Mason is constantly hungry and thirsty, and that
recently upon the advice of a friend, she asked his pediatrician to test him
for diabetes. The doctor refused, and said he’d slim up as he got older,
that it wasn’t a problem, that she was the problem, feeding him too much and
too often and the wrong kinds of foods - in other words, it was the mother’s
fault that the child is overweight. She denied this to me with tears in her
eyes, saying that she has never forced him to eat, not now or as a baby, that
he was born demanding lots of food.
If you could see this little boy, you’d know his weight IS a problem and
that he needs help, more than just someone blaming his mother for
over-feeding him.. He cannot run, jump, or climb at all. He gets winded
easily just playing a bit outside. He stumbles and falls very easily, then
cannot get back up without help except with great difficulty. He sleeps
far too much. Never has to be coaxed to sleep like most children, just
voluntarily sleeps, dozes off.
Here’s the interesting part of this story, and also why this young woman
fears her son may be diabetic. She also told this to the doctor, who
shrugged it off (time to change doctors, she knows). She said recently her
ex-husband (Mason’s father) became ill for the first time in his life, lost a
lot of weight really fast and was hospitalized. It was determined through
testing that he’s been diabetic since childhood, Type I, and never had a
clue. He’s now 32 years old. He’s never been ill.
The reason he/his parents never knew is because his parents (good ole
hippies from the 60’s) were absolute health advocates, and that is what he
knew all of his life. He grew up eating only health food (I don’t know the
specifics but totally organic), no processed food or junk food AT ALL, they
all stayed very physically active, and they practiced peace and love, avoided
stress as completely as possible. Since that is how he was raised from day
one, he carried those eating and exercise and no-stress habits with him
through adulthood.
Then one day a few months ago, he lost the job he’s had since becoming
an adult, and for the first time in his life knew what real stress was
because he had 4 children and a wife to support. He became depressed to the
point where he stopped exercising, stopped preparing the foods he’d always
eaten, and started eating the processed and frozen foods, and fast food take
out that his wife and kids ate. He shortly became extremely ill, lost a lot
of weight very fast as diabetics do when their bs levels go really high and
stay high, and that’s when he was hospitalized and found to have been
diabetic since childhood.
The doctors were astounded that he had lived so long with Type I
diabetes with no problems and no medication. He has no neuropathy. If
that’s not a testament to what the right foods, exercise, and a stress-free
life will do for our bodies, I don’t know what is. He was put on insulin
immediately, and I’m going to be very interested to see what happens to this
man in the near future - whether he can turn things back around and get off
the insulin or what.
Kady
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