"You can't eat chocolate at Easter" and other annoying myths about diabetes

[Northerner]

You might think you can't buy Easter chocolate for the people you know with diabetes. Diabetic Helen Whitehouse explains why you are so wrong.

Unless you are of a particularly religious persuasion, Easter is generally now taken over by the Bank Holiday, going and getting drunk on a Sunday afternoon, and eating chocolate for breakfast - am I right?

But this kind of attitude seems to completely skim over those of us who have diabetes. As a type one diabetic, most of my relatives completely forgot that I could eat chocolate, and therefore stopped buying it for me. Cue many a sad Easter Sunday morning.

So Type 1 diabetes is pretty common.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/send-me-all-the-chocolate-5451752

Nice to read something by someone with experience of diabetes in the national press! 🙂

 

[Sally71]

I might have to print that out and hand it round to a few people. My daughter gets soooooo fed up with people asking her why/telling her that she can't eat sweets!

Although one little lad in her class at school had a birthday coming up and did actually make the effort to ask the teacher what my daughter could eat so that he could bring in something that she could share too, which I thought was quite sweet. (no pun intended!). Teacher told him she can eat anything, including sweets

 

[Northerner]

How thoughtful of him 🙂