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
Based on the show, 8% of the Us population at present is afflicted with diabetic issues, which is the 7th major reason for death in America. While we understand that diabetic issues is among the leading preventable factors behind death brought on by extra carbohydrate intake, it's not the reason for Wilma's illness. As an insulin dependent diabetic person, Wima suffers from Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease that strikes the cells which generate insulin in the pancreas. Until the extensive availability of insulin, Type I diabetes was viewed as a fatal ailment and all 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 techniques that Wilma is adopting to refrigerate her insulin are the use of cold creek water and the construction of an underground storehouse. Five feet under the ground will generally show steady temperatures and also humidity levels as we have experienced previously. It has the extra advantage of remaining concealed from potential looters as well as covered from the majority of the potential mishaps that can transpire 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
Based on the show, 8% of the Us population at present is afflicted with diabetic issues, which is the 7th major reason for death in America. While we understand that diabetic issues is among the leading preventable factors behind death brought on by extra carbohydrate intake, it's not the reason for Wilma's illness. As an insulin dependent diabetic person, Wima suffers from Type I diabetes, an autoimmune disease that strikes the cells which generate insulin in the pancreas. Until the extensive availability of insulin, Type I diabetes was viewed as a fatal ailment and all 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 techniques that Wilma is adopting to refrigerate her insulin are the use of cold creek water and the construction of an underground storehouse. Five feet under the ground will generally show steady temperatures and also humidity levels as we have experienced previously. It has the extra advantage of remaining concealed from potential looters as well as covered from the majority of the potential mishaps that can transpire outside.
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