Originally Posted by
jefnvk
... I've never liked the advice that you cannot cure diabetes. In some cases (my Type I), you can't with current technology. In other cases, you very much can. Of course, then the argument moves onto it is really not cured, because if you revert to your old lifestyle it will come back, but if that is a legitimate argument then so is the thought that everyone is diabetic, because any of us could theoretically get ourselves to that point.
Diabetes is a chronic disease that you can mitigate with medication and/or lifestyle changes. If you stop the medication and/or lifestyle changes, you will likely get back to where you were, which is diabetic, and suffer the consequences of the disease.
We are not all diabetic, not even in theory; that is a false argument. Why not go all the way and say we all have, in theory, cancer, cardiac disease, name your ailment?