Instead of proving you have diabetes...

[Philippine Mango]

How do you prove you DON'T have diabetes? Eat a cake? Eat lots of candy? Soda? ???

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you prove you DON'T have diabetes? Eat a cake? Eat lots of candy? Soda? ???

Can't prove a negatgive...

But not taking insuline for a week and staying out of a coma would probably do it.

 

[Philippine Mango]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you prove you DON'T have diabetes? Eat a cake? Eat lots of candy? Soda? ???

Can't prove a negatgive...

But not taking insuline for a week and staying out of a coma would probably do it.

What about people with type II?

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

I don't know anything about diabetes...

Why would you want to prove you didn't have it if you had it? It's not contageous. As long as you maintain your program, why would anyone care?

 

[0roo0roo]

syringe, and some table sugar.

 

[BoomerD]

Blood and urine tests ought to do it...

oops, forgot a link:
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/diagnosis/

 

[herbiehancock]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you prove you DON'T have diabetes? Eat a cake? Eat lots of candy? Soda? ???

Can't prove a negatgive...

But not taking insuline for a week and staying out of a coma would probably do it.

Sure you can, at least with the human body. It's quite easy to prove out one does not have diabetes using the Glucose Tolerance TEst, as mentioned above. I can "prove" I don't have a broken bone with an X-ray, I can prove I don't have drugs in my system with any number of tests, I can prove lack of any number of diseases with the appropriate test. In medicine, you can in almost all cases prove a negative or normal.

 

[msparish]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you prove you DON'T have diabetes? Eat a cake? Eat lots of candy? Soda? ???

Can't prove a negatgive...

But not taking insuline for a week and staying out of a coma would probably do it.

Who said this was a "negative?" There are a lot of things you can do to prove you don't have diabetes. The best method (and I'm no doctor) would probably involve eating sugar and then monitoring blood sugar levels.

 

[getbush]

Ya just off the top of my head, they do the glucose tolerance test. If your serum levels of glucose stay in check after ingesting the sugar, then by definition you're not diabetic. Just to be sure, diabetes is a condition that cannot be reversed. It can be treated and managed, but a diabetic will always be dependent on that management. The condition will not get better.