[Vision2020] Idaho's Got Talent!

[Kenneth Marcy]

On 7/21/2014 7:12 AM, Paul Rumelhart wrote:
> There is no connection between sugar and Type I diabetes.  With Type I 
> diabetes, the cells that make insulin all die, pretty much all at once 
> and never produce any insulin ever again.  The going theory is that 
> your body exhibits an immune response for some unknown reason which 
> targets those cells.  It's not a slow death of those cells due to 
> sugar intake.  I know this because I watched my mom die from that 
> terrible disease over the first 32 years of my life.  I also saw how 
> embarrassed she was using her pump in public.

Please accept my condolences for your loss and your mom's suffering.  
Also, please accept my thanks for elaborating the differences between 
Types I and II diabetes and their causes.

> I do agree completely that sugar is a bad thing and that it causes 
> Type II diabetes.  Totally different thing, though.

Precisely.  And so we are returned to reconsideration of that special 
Idaho talent for actions inherently damaging to its own interests.  This 
time it is raising awareness of the undesirable effects of its 
agricultural crop beta vulgaris through the private personage and the 
public persona of its chosen ambassadress, to the potential financial 
disadvantage of some of its citizens and the state coffers.  On the 
other hand, the choice of Miss Sandison may develop to the advantage of 
those persons everywhere who understand the message implicit, and reduce 
their sugar consumption appropriately.


Ken


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> On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Kenneth Marcy <kmmos1 at frontier.com 
> <mailto:kmmos1 at frontier.com>> wrote:
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>     On 7/20/2014 1:39 PM, Scott Dredge wrote:
>>     Miss Idaho, aka Sierra Anne Sandison, could certainly be posting
>>     pictures of crowns and diamonds ... <[snip]>
>
>     Yes, Idaho's got talent!  This time it shows itself in the
>     juxtaposition of the choice of a person with Type I diabetes to
>     represent a state that annually produces 150,000 acres of
>     genetically modified sugar beets. Choosing a person whose beta
>     cells have been modified to disallow adequate insulin production
>     to represent a state whose agricultural crop beta vulgaris has
>     been modified for insecticide resistance to produce a substance
>     that is significantly assistive in inducing Type II diabetes is
>     almost, but not quite, too precious for promotion.  Way to go Idaho!
>
>
>     Ken
>

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