I watched the programme this morning and thought it was one of the best programmes that Ive seen for a long time which more or less puts the writing on the wall about being overweight so that anyone with 2 brain cells who when looking down, cant see their feet, will hopefully take notice and not wait for diabetes and other more serious health problems to be diagnosed. As for fats, well eating loads of meat and other processed food containing fats, is often the cause of polyps growing in the colon and if not detected and removed, could go on to become malignant tumours, so fat in moderation is the key.
As for DUK, well they need to bring out the large Silent Assassin poster again but feature someone who is overweight and not necessarily obese and have these posters on billboards outside supermarkets, bus stops, train station escalators and shopping centres and with any luck, people will start to feel uncomfortable about being the size they are and do something to get rid of the spare tyre. GPs also need to issue better dietary guidance and refrain from prescribing oral drugs and warn people of the danger ahead if they dont do something to lose weight and change their diet but of course many GPs are also overweight so they need to do something first before advising others.
In the interests of your education, it could be useful for you to do some reading into whether an expanded girth in T2s is cause or effect of T2. Your findings could be very enlightening.
Of course, all rules don't apply to all people - whether it be obesity, diabetes or plain arrogance, and of course there are people out there, in all walks of life, with all manner of afflictions who don't help themselves, but sadly not everyone is as well armed as we on here can be.
I do believe T2 diabetics deserve far better information at diagnosis and significantly more meaningful advice on diet too, but it is an unfortunate fact that not all diabetics are able to reverse their conditions, or even make mammoth improvements, due to many factors. Such factors could be time undiagnosed, other illnesses and/or associated treatment regimes, existing organ damage and plain old bad luck.
Diabetes, in my view, really is a significantly varied "portfolio disease", by which I mean it has many causes, many forms which drives a need at times for creative condition management. I have been extremely fortunate to be able to take my own brand of diabetes by the throat and throttle it into a decent place. Every day I thank my lucky stars for that bit of good fortune.