Short Essays on Anything Sensible

The public healthcare and government-advocated diet, which is high-carb, low-fat with seed oil, are not the main sources of metabolic diseases like diabetes. Here in Taiwan, at which Chinese Buddhism is widely spread and advocates veganism to its people, things are just got complicated very, very much. My family is also influenced greatly by it, resulting in miserable and irretrievable sickness. Because of my parents' Buddhist belief (my mom actually), my diet had been based hugely on starch and seed oil, though not vegan completely and meat was still allowed. However, my diet since kid was mainly composed by rice, noodle, rice porridge, vegetable cooked by soybean oil, flour and sucrose. For me, this kind of diet had lasted until 2021 when I was 35 years old, and my health got even worse when I was studying in Chinese Buddhism school (no meat at all) for about two and half years. I was thin and tall since kid, for about 170 cm when graduated from elementary school at twelve; I als...

I've encountered three people in my life who are blind or have deteriorated eyesight due to diabetes. The first one was a sophomore (or junior?) from the Special Education Department about 18 years ago. She appeared completely blind and had some mental issues. In a small group meeting of 4~5 people hosted by a teacher from university (I don't recall why I attended), this blind girl had some chatted with me. At that time, from which I've been diagnosed as T1D for about 2 years,  I planned to start a diabetic club (mainly for T1D) and sought diabatics to talk to. From our chatting, I learned that she regularly ate breakfast from Taiwanese Western burger shop, which in my mind was a terrible idea; I said to her, "You know it's the most horrified breakfast. Don't you think about changing it?" She showed sorrowful and helpless facial atmosphere, speechless with a shrug, had no definitive response to my question, then smiled me away in an empty distance. The sec...