Coburn: Food Stamps and school lunches are what cause most childhood diabetes

[cali]

this is just ridiculous.

[madmax]

1. Where did he go to med school?

Jerk!

[jaxx]

2. Must not have been Harvard because he's panning them.

LOL dumfuck U is my guess.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Well he's from Oklahoma where 16% of the population is on food stamps and 27% of the kids under 18

live in poverty.

http://www.statehealthfacts.org/profileind.jsp?cat=1&sub=2&rgn=38

[Bitwit1234]

4. My family never used food stamps

we never got free lunch and I HAVE DIABETIS...My sons have diabetis and they never got free lunch and I never got food stamps...tell me somebody where do republicans get their information. Do they have a ticker tape that spits it out their a**hole.

[sharp_stick]

5. I wonder if he'd

support an increase in the amount you can spend while using foodstamps? One big problem with food stamps is the inability to buy enough high quality fresh food because you only have a small amount to spend and it leads to processed foods more often than not.

I doubt Coburn the bullshit doctor would make a simple connection like that though.

[bullwinkle428]

6. "If we just let people starve to death, we'll eliminate diabetes in our lifetime!"

Physician, heal thyself!

[shawcomm]

7. Well, we better eliminate them right away!

Starving is so much better than diabetes.

Can he be any more a dickhead? Don't answer that. I'm pretty sure I know the answer.

[safeinOhio]

8. Were Coke and Pepsi breathing hard?

[Renew Deal]

9. Sounds more like economic status affects health

:shrug:

[Political Heretic]

10. Fuck that asshole. Yeah let's use CHILD POVERTY lies to score some political points.

Fucker.

See? I can be mad at Republicans too! :D

[cali]

12. lol.

good.

[prolesunited]

11. While that is certainly crazy talk

one thing I like about the WIC program is that choices are limited to specific nutritional groups and choices to make up a healthy diet. For example, you can buy Cheerios but not cereals with sugar as the first ingredient.

While I know that this will get me hammered here, I think it would be beneficial.

I would couple this with programs to eliminate food deserts, emphasis on farmer's markets and educational programs on nutritious eating and economical meal preparation, even if all you have is a hot plate and a microwave.

[Jennicut]

13. Poverty can cause type 2 diabetes with poor food choices being all that is available.

Type 1 juvenile diabetes is caused by a the pancreas not making insulin or making very little.

[Bobbie Jo]

14. Good Lord, why did they even show up?

:eyes:

[Tailormyst]

15. If they would just die of starvation we could avoid the insulin costs !