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viejomalogato

Jan 1, 2004, 9:56 AM

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Are diabetic supplies available, or must they be shipped in. I have noticed that there is some reference regarding receiving insulin by mail. I am still on meds for controling sugar levels and wonder about obtaining those drugs also.

Rolly

Jan 1, 2004, 11:15 AM

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Re: [oldbaddog] Diabetes

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Diabetic supplies are widely available over-the-counter -- no prescription required to buy needles in Mexico. After all, diabetes is a problem in Mexico as well as anywhere else.

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elcomputo

Jan 11, 2004, 10:35 PM

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Yes. In fact, diabetes is a GREATER problem in Mexico than in many other countries. You see a lot of obese people down here. Sadly, many of them are kids. Consumption of junk food has increased greatly in Mexico in recent years. And there has been a corresponding decrease, as in the USA, in strenous exercise for all ages (more vehicles, less walking, more desk-bound office workers, lots of potential laborers out of work).

There are some things you can eat and drink in Mexico that purportedly lower blood sugar. One is nopale cactus leaves, a staple of the diet of the indigenous people and something you can get from street vendors and at any market. Another, I've been told, is tequila. But it has to be the 100 per cent agave tequila, which is pretty expensive. And that staple of the Mexican diet, beans, are high in protein and low in simple carbohydrates.

TomG

Jan 12, 2004, 7:46 AM

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Studies of indigenous people with diabetes rates of over 50% in Arizona should suggest that many Mexican people probably are genetically susceptable to diabetes. That would sensibly lead to public policy encouraging consumption of nopales, frijoles, corn tortillas, etc., and would necessarily be bad for refrescos, junk food, high levels of fats, etc.

A friend who was a traveling accountant for the IMSS says that the older people in the backcountry were very strong and healthy, but their sons and grandsons are not so. Quality of food he thinks. He thinks the quality of life was better here when he was young (1960's), and his mother thinks it was better when she was young. In the 1960's he says people could drink the tap water here in a state capital; and it ran every day. Now the water is unfit and it runs a few hours two times a week. Any economists or politicians who think we are talking about progress here has been watching too much TV.

David Eidell

Jan 12, 2004, 4:53 PM

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Diabetic Supplies

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Glucose meter test strips are horrendously expensive any place but in addition they are almost impossible to find down here. AVANDIA is not available in generic form but Glyburide (Glibenclamida in Mexico) and Glucophage are available. Hb1ac tests are available and I trust those laboratories that local MD's trust. Nopalito consumption does effect a mild moderation of blood sugar in me, but the addition of a supplement chromium for instance seems to be more effective.

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