Wilma Bryant provides a very difficult topic to the group of Doomsday Preppers: survival with a medical condition. In her situation the disease is diabetes but dependency on medication can seriously complicate the ideas of many potential preppers. How does she seem to prepare her survival off the grid in order to stay alive?
EF5 Tornados - growing frequency?
After quickly looking into the literature, the studies support Wilma's claim that tornados have indeed been increasing in frequency over the last 30 years. Coming from approximately 900 tornados through the 80s, recent years have produced an average closer to 1200 per year, an increase of 33%!
Diabetic issues in a Tragedy
According to the show, 8% of the US population currently suffers from diabetes, and this disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the country. While we know that diabetes is one of the leading preventable causes of death caused by excess carbohydrate consumption, this is not the reason for Wilma's disease. As an insulin dependent diabetic, she suffers from Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease which attacks the cells which create insulin in the pancreas. Prior to the widespread availability of insulin, this was considered to be a fatal disease and those who developed it rarely survived childhood.
Low carb prepping
I have a feeling Wilma and I would certainly get along as she is as well into low carb prepping. Though it is a point of necessity rather than a choice for her, the amount of food stuff she has stored is a proof of the actual way it can be accomplished. To be able to decrease the amount of insulin that she might require for eating a meal, Wilma has chosen lower carbohydrate foods for her storing. With a reduced glycemic index, the food is not converted to blood sugar as quickly (if ever) and considerably less insulin is required to clean the blood vessels.
There are plenty of benefits for non-diabetic preppers to undertake this kind of preparation. For me, if you are experiencing the difficulty of arranging an entire food store, you may also do it in the best manner. In fact, storing sacks of sugar can cause other kinds of diabetes, a better level of hunger as well as obesity which are all major negatives in a post collapse situation.
Refrigeration
They say need is the mother of invention, and no-one has the necessity to invent like an insulin dependent diabetic person. Refrigeration is important to enable Wilma and her daughter to stay alive Sensibly, they have invented ways to use the environment to maintain a comfortable temperature without electric power. In case there is an f5 tornado or perhaps almost any tragedy, loss of infrastructure should be presumed.
The two ways that Wilma is looking to refrigerate her insulin are by cold creek water and by building an underground storehouse. Five feet under the ground will typically exhibit stable temperatures and humidity levels as we have seen before. It has the added benefit of being concealed from potential looters and insulated from most of the possible calamities that could happen outside.
EF5 Tornados - growing frequency?
After quickly looking into the literature, the studies support Wilma's claim that tornados have indeed been increasing in frequency over the last 30 years. Coming from approximately 900 tornados through the 80s, recent years have produced an average closer to 1200 per year, an increase of 33%!
Diabetic issues in a Tragedy
According to the show, 8% of the US population currently suffers from diabetes, and this disease is the 7th leading cause of death in the country. While we know that diabetes is one of the leading preventable causes of death caused by excess carbohydrate consumption, this is not the reason for Wilma's disease. As an insulin dependent diabetic, she suffers from Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease which attacks the cells which create insulin in the pancreas. Prior to the widespread availability of insulin, this was considered to be a fatal disease and those who developed it rarely survived childhood.
Low carb prepping
I have a feeling Wilma and I would certainly get along as she is as well into low carb prepping. Though it is a point of necessity rather than a choice for her, the amount of food stuff she has stored is a proof of the actual way it can be accomplished. To be able to decrease the amount of insulin that she might require for eating a meal, Wilma has chosen lower carbohydrate foods for her storing. With a reduced glycemic index, the food is not converted to blood sugar as quickly (if ever) and considerably less insulin is required to clean the blood vessels.
There are plenty of benefits for non-diabetic preppers to undertake this kind of preparation. For me, if you are experiencing the difficulty of arranging an entire food store, you may also do it in the best manner. In fact, storing sacks of sugar can cause other kinds of diabetes, a better level of hunger as well as obesity which are all major negatives in a post collapse situation.
Refrigeration
They say need is the mother of invention, and no-one has the necessity to invent like an insulin dependent diabetic person. Refrigeration is important to enable Wilma and her daughter to stay alive Sensibly, they have invented ways to use the environment to maintain a comfortable temperature without electric power. In case there is an f5 tornado or perhaps almost any tragedy, loss of infrastructure should be presumed.
The two ways that Wilma is looking to refrigerate her insulin are by cold creek water and by building an underground storehouse. Five feet under the ground will typically exhibit stable temperatures and humidity levels as we have seen before. It has the added benefit of being concealed from potential looters and insulated from most of the possible calamities that could happen outside.
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