to not be assed to spend today making a cake to help with diabetes

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Just had a text from a work mate to remind me that tomorrow is the cake sale for diabetes UK.

I find this strange on so many levels. Firstly people should be encouraged to eat less cake to avoid most of it. Secondly I would have to run out to the shops , spend about a fiver and waste this afternoon.

Aibu to jus donate a fiver + gift aid and forget about it?

What a bloody stupid and insensitive idea! Who thought that one up?

Sugar laden cake to help diabetics - lol!

Take some fruit in.

You respond with 'yes I know, I am looking forward to buying loads'.

or 'lols at the irony of that statement. I thought it was a wind up!'

FFS, I've heard it all now. Whose idea was that?

My DD has Type 1 Diabetes and can eat whatever she wants, we have to calculate the carbohydrates in what she eats and give her insulin accordingly.

Having said that, she doesnt have much cake anyway but she CAN eat it and I'm grateful for any fundraising for diabetes UK.

Cake sales have always struck me as a farcical way of fundraising. People simply won't pay as much for a homemade cake on a cake stall as they will for a single slice of cake in Costa. having computed how much motorway service Costas are making per cake, I refuse to buy them! And the baker doesn't get reimbursed cost of ingredients/cooking, so effectively the baker is making most of the donation.

What walkacrossthesand said!

I suppose she's after your cake and your £5. I think people are quite limited to what they can do at work and cake is probably going to raise more money than shaking a collection tin in someone's face, but eating cake for diabetes is quite strange. I hope you don't work in the same place as my DH. He has Type 2 and is a bugger for eating things he's not supposed to.

Maybe a book sale would be better for next time.

What a mad idea. I think you should refuse on principle. Cakes for diabetes. With all this about the threat of type two diabetes caused by a diet containing too much sugar. Are they nuts.

It's a stupid idea, a friend of mine goes to weightwatchers and they recently held a bake sale for diabetes- double whammy of irony there!

Can you get away with not turning up? Or is it when you are on shift?

YANBU to just take in a donation, i wouldn't waste my afternoon baking for something so silly either. Unless you want to faff about making a diabetic friendly cake?

its unreasonable to assume that diabetics shouldn't eat cake or that it is a cause of diabetes in the first place.

type 1 is an autoimmune disease, babies can get it, it has bugger all to do with diet.

type 2 can have obesity as a contributory factor but there are lots of others not least genetics, ethnicity, age, gender etc.

its far too complex a disease to find any irony in raising money for diabetics through a cake sale.

Eating a slice of cake as a treat isn't the reason for the massive explosion in type 2 diabetes. People not being arsed to get of their backsides and be active, plus eating excessive amounts of food/crap in general (and bread/pasta/fruit juice/smoothies etc is just as carbohydrate laden as a slice of cake) on a constant daily basis is far more of a problem.

Feel free to take part in one of the activity related fund raisers that DUK hold-cycle round Spain, or climb Kilimanjaro, or hike the inca trail maybe if you think that's less ironic. But then that's likely to waste more than an afternoon. A cake sale is quick and easy to organise and participate in.

A healthy balanced diet is recommended in diabetes. Not a diet that never again contains any sort of treat.

Meanie - my husband has type 1 diabetes and from Diabetes UK cook book we have some wonderful cake recipes that are completely suitable for him and the rest of us love. We also have lovely friends who will make cakes for him from this cookery book if we are there when they are celebrating something so he can join in. Living with diabetes is hard enough without people thinking you can't eat cake. What you can't eat are those disgusting shop bought ones - but they are not good for anyone anyway. And Diabetes UK needs funds

My diabetic friend held a bake sale in aid of diabetes. I didn't think it was stupid or insensitive. It was her own idea, after all.

Personally I think it's raising money, so it's a good thing. People shave there head to raise money for cancer, is that insensitive too?

But you shouldn't have to feel pressured into participating if you don't want too

I wouldn't give a penny to diabetes uk, you know they are funded by the manufacturers of processed food products right? But then I don't think encouraging a carb heavy diet is great for anyone.

Actually, type 1 also has a relationship with diet, as the autoimmunity that causes it can be caused by autoimmune reactions to food cross reacting and destroying body tissues (beta cells in the case of type 1 or 1.5, but any type of tissue can be attacked). That is fairly new stuff, but in societies with very high wheat consumption, there is a high prevalence of type 1... And all other autoimmune conditions. It is an unclear picture as yet... Complex interplay of genetic and environmental factors.

Type 2 diabetes is not caused by eating too much sugar. It can be caused by being overweight, but you can eat cake and not be overweight.

Type 1 diabetes is caused by genetic factors.

Is this going to be the "cakes cause cancer" thread all over again? I sincerely hope not.

I don't think this post will end well

Some of the comments on here have infuriated me. I have family members with diabetes, including DP and obesity is not the only cause. I really think if you don't know the facts, don't comment!

And FWIW, Diabetes UK have given us fantastic advice and support. They need all the help they can get.

Bake the cake/don't bake the cake.
Entirely up to you, charitable giving is voluntary after all.

This thread is about to go down a really ridiculous path though.
They always do.

Rawcoconut my daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 when she was 9 months old. Her diet had nothing to do with it.

it deserves not to end well because of the ignorance shown by some posters towards a very complex and misunderstood disease. Hells teeth there is increasing evidence that it can be viral!