Dead Pancreas Society

We’ve all read them, those posts on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram that tout keto will reverse your diabetes, eating paleo will help release toxins from your liver, drink this tea, eat this berry, stand on your head and chant for four hours a day and you’ll be magically cured.  This isn’t a new concept, people have believed in crack pot cures for what ails them for the longest time.  There is a reason why we call it peddling snake oil.  People have been gullible and vulnerable since the beginning of time and people have taken advantage of that.  It’s crazy to think it only started when social media made a huge boom.  Of course it didn’t.  However, the harmfulness of this practice was confined to how much power the person had to influence others and how many people they could reach.  With the popularity of social media at an all time high, so are the dangers of these suggestions, hints, claims of healing powers.  They are not only dangerous t...

Eating out is a treat in our house, because we are trying hard to be healthier.  We enjoy going out once a week as a couple (sometimes as a family but usually our restaurant adventures are just me and my husband), not having to worry about cooking or doing dishes and just enjoying each other’s company.  Not to mention, we enjoy trying new foods and new places and there were a lot of new places that opened up in a nearby town over the past six months.  Yet we also have our favorites: Cracker Barrel, Chinese, and the Waffle House.  Our first hand full of dates were at these three places so we are regulars there. The last bad experience I wrote about happened at CB.  It was no fault of theirs and they can’t control what other patrons do, especially when it is busy and these people are trying (but failing) at being discreet.  I have no doubt the manager at our local CB would not have tolerated the behavior if we had made her aware of it, but I didn’t because ...