Five million people 'at risk of type 2 diabetes'

trinidadone

Type-2 diabetes is closely linked to diet and obesity and affects about 3.2 million people across the UK.

Diabetes arises when the body loses the ability to use or make insulin, a hormone that helps regulate the amount of sugar in blood.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34053325

http://news.sky.com/story/1541722/millions-at-high-risk-of-type-2-diabetes

But the NHS is preparing to roll out a diet, weight loss and exercise programme that has been shown to reduce the diabetes risk for a quarter of those who take it up.

"The NHS spends 10% of its entire budget managing diabetes And unless we get better at preventing type-2 diabetes, this figure will rise to unsustainable levels."

Barbara Young, chief executive of the charity Diabetes UK, said: "Type 2 diabetes is a serious health condition which affects 2.9 million people in England, and can lead to devastating complications such as blindness, amputations and stroke, and ultimately early death.

Any thoughts????

dawyldthing

It doesn't surprise me in the slightest.nbut like they said on the Wright stuff this morning if the put another tax on sweets etc and put the money towards this kind of thing it would help.

There's something wrong when a lot of sweets are cheaper than chocolate

worried_jim

dawyldthing wrote: »

There's something wrong when a lot of sweets are cheaper than chocolate

I can tell you as a diabetic they are both as evil as each other!

I would support a tax on sugar all the way- I had no idea the damage my three cans of full fat Coke were doing till it was too late. I now shudder when ever I see someone drinking anything but a diet soda.

Indie_Kid

isn't diet soda just as bad?

worried_jim

doesn't spike my blood sugar levels so no.

dawyldthing

It's mainly chemicals in all of them. There's a video that shows the amount of sugar in both when boiled and there's minimal int he diet but it's all the crap they add in too like aspartame which is shocking

pogofish

The claims about Aspartame and health were completely disproved back in 2007.

Why continue to promote them now?

stephen77

Plenty of other foods besides coke that can spike your insulin.

stephen77

Most of the advice will be similar to help reduce cancer and heart attacks as well.

dawyldthing

They will tell us that but there must be something in these drinks causing all these problems. That and a sedentary lifestyle as like when I had a conversation with someone once years ago all jobs were manual, very few are nowadays like they were

BlueEyedGirl

worried_jim wrote: »

I can tell you as a diabetic they are both as evil as each other!

I would support a tax on sugar all the way- I had no idea the damage my three cans of full fat Coke were doing till it was too late. I now shudder when ever I see someone drinking anything but a diet soda.

I completely agree with you!