Does nature want those with Diabetes to die?

4 Responses to Does nature want those with Diabetes to die?

1. Kendra

   February 22, 2012 at 5:21 am

   first off, humans are not very based on natural selection anyways. we procreate based on personality compatability, despite physical form and disorders.

   secondly, diabetes is simply a disfunction of insulin. it is not a disease, it is a defect. it is an illness. people get viruses dont they? people get sick. things that make people sick is a work against nature. nature wants to fix these problems but does not always win the battle. we have immune systems dont we? nature gives us what we need to fix what is wrong with us. it just doesnt always know how to fix everything.
2. Aqwa

   February 22, 2012 at 5:23 am

   Distinguish between diabetes type 1 (congenital dysfunction) from diabetes type 2.

   The former is defect which is luckily easily corrected with injection of insulin. In the past such individuals died – deselected naturally.
   The latter is mostly acquired by overeating (not always though).
   Overeating is against natural environments in which humans and other animals evolved (sporadic sparse food supply).

   1. we were selected naturally for our brain which allows us to survive under many circumstances including fatal diseases, etc. – this is whole point

   2. why we need to help “natural selection” by not giving insuling to people who can be saved and be productive and healthy otherwise? this will go against the first and is completely insane proposition
3. Aaron

   February 22, 2012 at 6:05 am

   If you want to look at it that way, then every treatment does skirt around natural selection.
   But your selection of diabetes as an example brings around a good point. This fairly new disease is the result of a completely UNNATURAL diet, in which humans, who evolved and thrived on a carnivorous diet of animal protein, began to consume grains, carbohydrates, and simple sugars. Only in the last 10,000 years have we really discovered and utilized agriculture to the point where carbohydrate rich foods have come to serve as are our greatest source of nutrition. Not to mention the introduction of high fructose corn syrups into the hominid diet. Think about it. After millions of years, what do you think we evolved to feed on? Is it the snickers and coke at nature’s newest marvel, the cornerside 7-11? I don’t think so.
   Not much around the 20th century lifestyle serves to fuel natural selection anyways. In a way, our entire culture is determined to “skirt around it.”
   Not that this is a bad thing (until the apocalypse comes of course). We can accomplish more and help to improve the lives of ourselves and of others. The current fact that, “Diabetes sufferers, without the help of insulin shots, would perish.” will soon be a thing of the past.
   
   Longer vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itKmfoiriGs&feature=channel

   Also look up the paleo diet for a way to avoid such things in the first place.
4. Chow C

   February 22, 2012 at 6:07 am

   Disgusting, really.