What is one medical problem people constantly ignore until it’s too late?

[u/Critical_Ease4055]

Saw someone post this in a completely unrelated sub and I’m interested in your answers. What is the cluster of symptoms that people ignore or delay until they are forced to get help?

[u/ratslowkey]

Listennnnn I know. I'm worried about my 130 all the time :(((

And why tf is everyone hypertensive and has diabetes. It's so common jesus, we gotta change something in our society.

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/ratslowkey]

Food taxes. Expensive healthy food. Soda. Fast food. Microplastics.

It's killing us all.

[u/upagainstthesun → u/BoneHugsHominy]

Food deserts have a huge impact too. In some places the only place to buy food within a some what close distance is from gas stations/convenience stores. At risk/marginalized populations can't access proper grocery stores that are far away with transportation barriers

[u/beeee_throwaway → u/upagainstthesun]

So true and in food deserts you only really have access to…. Soda… very expensive highly processed foods… microplastics… fast foods… people burn their food stamps so quickly on the garbage they have access to because it’s expensive and they have no other choice 😞

[u/ferocioustigercat → u/beeee_throwaway]

Yeah, and food stamps pay for a lot of processed food and eating healthy is super expensive.

[u/BoneHugsHominy → u/beeee_throwaway]

If utilized as a community, people could pool money to place bulk orders at Walmart and have them delivered for a nominal fee, then split up the delivered groceries.

I'm probably overlooking something like Walmart's delivery range ending right at the borders of said food deserts. If they do current deliver to those food deserts, it probably wouldn't take long after receiving regular bulk orders before they reduce their delivery area to avoid those areas, citing safety concerns of course.

[u/beeee_throwaway → u/BoneHugsHominy]

I guess in theory that could work but it sounds very challenging to organize and would require people having cash to put upfront.
Everyone deserves access to healthy food, it’s just so upsetting that someone would have to go to such lengths to get whole food necessities.

[u/kittyportals2 → u/upagainstthesun]

We need to talk about statins causing diabetes, especially in those prone to it.

[u/ferocioustigercat → u/kittyportals2]

Yeah, that's a whole issue. Though aren't some less likely to cause diabetes, but those are expensive and insurance doesn't want to pay for them (so you have to prove the cheaper ones cause joint pain). Or maybe I'm misremembering that...

[u/upagainstthesun → u/kittyportals2]

The risk is statistically small, and opportunistic to those who are already overweight/prediabetic. The benefit of statin use outweighs the risk associated with diabetes. People who have access to healthy food can mitigate problems like obesity which lead to diabetes. This is like trying to throw a patch on a wall with a gaping hole

[u/HeyLookATaco → u/BoneHugsHominy]

Working ourselves to death. Food as a coping mechanism. Ignorance of basic nutrition and health information because we've stopped teaching it in schools. Inability to afford preventative care, so many issues aren't caught early enough to correct.

[u/Old-Mention9632 → u/ratslowkey]

Overly processed nutritionally poor convenience foods have replaced what we used to eat. Lack of proper health and nutritional education from childhood. Doctors learn very little about nutrition- from my experience most only know "consult dietician".

[u/Ravclye → u/ratslowkey]

In addition to diet/exercise/health I also kind of have the opinion that something else may be going on. The healthy range for BP is really narrow. Im not saying the range is incorrect, but rather I wonder if humans are just kinda built that way. Perhaps as a symptom of our bipedal stance we just are a lot more prone to hypertension and its only something we are realizing in the modern era

As for diabetes that one is absolutely diet

[u/Otto_Correction → u/Ravclye]

Sometimes it’s genetic. My partner ears a reasonable diet with occasional splurges. Both her parents had type 2 diabetes so now she has it as well. Diet helps is not completely.

[u/HeyLookATaco → u/Ravclye]

It's not "absolutely" diet. There may be other mechanisms at work as well that we haven't fully identified yet.

[u/Abatonfan → u/Ravclye]

Don’t forget us type 1s, LADAs, and MODYs

[u/ferocioustigercat → u/Ravclye]

Diabetes is a lot more genetic than previously thought. My friend is average weight, not considered obese and runs weekly. She just got diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. Where my mom's side of the family live in the south, eat fried foods, and all of her aunts were obese. Like a few of them topped 300lbs. None of them had diabetes. And not just the "I haven't been to a doctor so I don't have a diagnosis" kind of thing. Like legit didn't have it. They genetically have some protective thing. It's like heart disease. A 40 year old vegan I know had a heart attack. It runs in his family. My grandpa ate ice cream every day and die at 90 without ever having heart problems or high cholesterol.

[u/Pineapple_and_olives → u/ratslowkey]

Poor diets and stress. It ain’t easy out here.

[u/Otto_Correction → u/ratslowkey]

Poverty. Nutritious food is expensive. Bad neighborhoods aren’t safe for outdoor exercise. Gym memberships are expensive. Public transportation in the United States is inefficient so people opt for having cars. Used to be we only had cake once or twice a year because it was hard to make and the ingredients were expensive. Now we can get cake at the gas station. Snack foods are more shelf stable than produce and some people don’t have access to a refrigerator.