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Finally, 10 months after it was scheduled to air on Disney Channel, the Hannah Montana episode dealing with diabetes has an air date. The episode was called “Sugar, No Sugar” and it dealt with Mitchel Musso’s character Oliver having diabetes. Back in July, Mitchel talked about the scraped episode saying, “You know, I feel like it’s kind of sad it was cut but we’re actually reshooting it. We’re going to recap on everything that was not completely examined right. I know a lot of people were saying we really didn’t hit diabetes exactly on the head.”
The script was being re-written after parents complained about how the subject was portrayed on the episode. What was their beef with the episode?
“Our idea was that Oliver had a really bad case of diabetes and he couldn’t eat any sugar and then a lot of the people were saying, ‘No, people with diabetes can still eat sugar. This is wrong! You’re teaching kids wrong messages.’”
“But it’s not wrong,” Mitchel said. “There are people out there who cannot have sugar. That’s just the way of life.”
Well, finally, on September 20th the episode will air and we can all see it! The episode is about Miley (Miley Cyrus) and Lilly (Emily Osment) reacting to the fact that Oliver (Mitchel Musso) has been diagnosed with juvenile diabetes. They turn into the food police at a sweet 16 party and do whatever they can to keep Oliver from eating certain kinds of foods. Together, they all work through the subject of juvenile diabetes and the challenges people who have it face. It ends with a feel good message.
In a letter to viewers Disney made this statement: “We sincerely hope you will find that this revised story more accurately incorporates the subject of living with Type 1 diabetes, with the theme of the character Oliver learning to rely on his friends for support, no matter what challenges may arise.”
Are you looking forward to FINALLY seeing it?
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973 days ago
[...] the Hannah Montana episode dealing with diabetes. You can read my original post from earlier today here. As you’ll see, they changed the episode name from “Sugar, No Sugar” to “Uptight [...]
973 days ago
[...] the Hannah Montana episode dealing with diabetes. You can read my original post from earlier today here. As you’ll see, they changed the episode name from “Sugar, No Sugar” to “Uptight [...]
973 days ago
[...] the Hannah Montana episode dealing with diabetes. You can read my original post from earlier today here. As you’ll see, they changed the episode name from “Sugar, No Sugar” to “Uptight [...]
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! Is there such a thing as a GOOD case of diabetes? It is what it is. And YES, people with juvenile diabetes (aka Type 1) can eat ANYTHING, including SUGAR. They just have to treat what they eat with insulin…performing a function that their pancreas cannot.
I truly hope that this do-over episode of Hannah Montana presents a more accurate picture of juvenile diabetes. It’s great to have it out there, but it needs to be addressed with care and fact-based information.