tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post437960174210918161..comments2023-10-23T11:24:13.532-04:00Comments on Diabetes Update: Is Diabetes an Eating Disorder?Jennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-3242128782952310212008-08-19T15:12:00.000-04:002008-08-19T15:12:00.000-04:00Nonegiven,I went and looked at the "Intuitive Eati...Nonegiven,<BR/><BR/>I went and looked at the "Intuitive Eating" book that is #2 on the Diabetes bestseller list this hour and checked out its tags. In the list of tags there are dozens of tags. NONE of them is "diabetes" or "diabetic."<BR/><BR/>This is something Amazon is doing.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-88943381150171466992008-08-19T14:11:00.000-04:002008-08-19T14:11:00.000-04:00I thought the tags or categories were added by Am...I thought the tags or categories were added by Amazon customers. Maybe the diabetic people who thought they had eating disorders are buying your book and finding out they don't have the mental problems they thought. I know I was totally amazed that I could eat half the calories on low carb without hunger than I did on my normal diet when I was hungry all the time. I thought I must be sick in Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15727857476700090660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-35892909953890512492008-08-19T12:20:00.000-04:002008-08-19T12:20:00.000-04:00Thanks Jenny...I always hated the idea that obesit...Thanks Jenny...<BR/>I always hated the idea that obesity was an eating disorder. I actually partially attribute this myth to causing one in my case. I was so desperate to prove I wasn't some pathetic weak fat person (glutton, sloth) that I actually did screw my brain up and become very emotionally obsessed with controlling weight.<BR/><BR/>Even anorexia isn't an "emotional" disorder. Anorexia (ItsTheWooohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12057537399918684119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-4061142427699174442008-08-19T08:35:00.000-04:002008-08-19T08:35:00.000-04:00I am completely unable to disagree. Like you but f...I am completely unable to disagree. Like you but for different reasons I was never overweight - until I got put on a Healthy High Carb Low Fat diet "for may lipids". This not only made my lipids significantly worse but for the first time in my life I started gaining weight, and in all the wrong places. In retrospect the low fat had more effect than the high carbs since I was previously eating Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-3898707239391369702008-08-18T17:20:00.000-04:002008-08-18T17:20:00.000-04:00Thanks for posting this Jenny! I sent my complaint...Thanks for posting this Jenny! I sent my complaints to Amazon.<BR/><BR/>From the title, I was expecting your post to be about something else... right after I was diagnosed with diabetes, I went to a lecture on eating disorders. When they listed the symptoms for eating disorders, they included: thinking about food all the time; counting calories, fat, and carbs; feeling guilty after eating certainAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-44916844614484762252008-08-18T16:56:00.000-04:002008-08-18T16:56:00.000-04:00Mary,These are Google Ads and they are dispensed i...Mary,<BR/><BR/>These are Google Ads and they are dispensed in response to key words found on the page. <BR/><BR/>I would hope that visitors to this blog are web-educated enough to understand how Google Ads work. I have blocked the sleazier diabetes ads Google displays, but obviously this topic has attracted another, different batch of advertisers than does my usual subject matter. <BR/><BR/>The Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-2028538699038366312008-08-18T16:47:00.000-04:002008-08-18T16:47:00.000-04:00Jenny, there's a disconnect here. The ads in the ...Jenny, there's a disconnect here. The ads in the headings on your blog are about exactly the things you are deploriing: attributing diabetes to your inner unstable sugar pig and suggesting that "natural" health store cures are better than a doctor's advice. The ads seem to change, but one just now was for bulimia and others were for "eating disorders."<BR/><BR/>Prairie MaryMary Strachan Scriverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538160009129822362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30206473.post-72723912716005222552008-08-18T12:58:00.000-04:002008-08-18T12:58:00.000-04:00You said:"By putting these eating disorder books o...You said:<BR/>"By putting these eating disorder books on their Diabetes list Amazon is making a medical judgment about diabetes--that it is caused by emotional problems--a diagnosis that is not supported by science. To do this is as valid--and as offensive--as putting books about demon possession in the bestseller list for mental illness."<BR/><BR/>Aw, shucks. So I can't blame "demons." And I jimpurdy1943@yahoo.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12974301744118775363noreply@blogger.com