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Falsehoods like that are 100x worse than the price of insulin. 90-95% of diabetes in the US is Type 2, and it is crap diet that causes it.

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html

And if you want cheap insulin, you can buy it for $25 at Walmart.

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$75 for their Novolog analog. Almost no one should use NPH, it’s generally terrible and costs the same as we pay in Canada for the name brand Novo insulin aspart(It’s not subsidized).

The issue is people, generally, see diabetic and don’t ask, just assume. Millions are not type-2, many are due to pregnancies, old age too, or damage from disease. But even with obeisity/inactivity it is a risk factor and generally has a genetic component too. Plus, one the beta cells are gone, they are gone.

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