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Diabetes Kills More Than 1 in 10 People!

Diabetes Does NOT Kill nearly 9 in 10 People - is that better? :mrgreen:

Well the previous information was not meant to make people feel GLUM :( . The info was put on the Diabetes UK site for us all to read; I was just bringing it to everyone's attention (I actually saw it on the Sky News site first).

We do need to face up to facts; I don't believe we should "bury our heads in the sand". That won't make us all get better now, will it? We need to FIGHT the diabetes and having the facts helps us to do that.
 
Diabetes Does NOT Kill nearly 9 in 10 People - is that better?
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Yes, that's more positive, kansenji :D Trust me, I do not bury my head in the sand.I am fully aware of the facts and am doing everything I can to help myself, as are others on here.I just feel that if you joined a support group for cancer sufferers, you wouldn't go on there and head a thread "Cancer Kills more than 1 in 10 People".Cancer sufferers are well aware of the facts as are us diabetics about our condition. I suppose I like to try and stay positive, so I prefer your "Diabetes does NOT kill nearly 9 in 10 people". :wink:
 
When I was diagnosed in 2000, my Dr explained ALL the complications I could get. The consultation took some time... She finished up computing my probability of a heart attack within 10 years at 25%...

Steve Redgrave had just won his Olympic gold medals I went into the surgery thinking that diabetes was no great problem. I came out feeling as if I had been sitting under a concrete mixer pouring out its load on me. I had the disease that would kill me.

One thing that approach did for me was to give me the determination to fight it.
 
It's convenient for the press and to hang a "blame culture" on diabetes. Sorry T1s! but there are now many people out there, who are convinced that diabetes ( they don't know there are several types) is a self inflicted condition and that we're no better than the smokers and alcoholics. We have caused this condition by our gluttony and in essence deserve what we get. Hence we also shouldn't be depleting the NHS coffers and if we die early, so much the better. Cancer sufferers are to be helped and supported and pink ribbons worn to raise funds. Because breast cancer had huge publicity, certain males couldn't stand the attention going mainly to women and now we have the huge amount of publicity surrounding prostate cancer. It's part of a pattern of prejudices which exists in Britain and possibly elsewhere too. If some of the geekier ones among us sat down to the task, we could probably predict the next "Big News"
It will probably be something to do with drug adiction. Drug addicts are no longer "stupid and weak" they are "ill"
 
Just for the record, I did NOT actually invent the headline of this post; It was based on the SKY report headline "Diabetes 'Kills One In 10 People'" and the corrected "more than One In 10 People" phrase in the article itself.

I was factually correct. If I had said that the article quoted that "Diabetes Does Not Kill 9 Out Of 10 People" I would have been telling a lie. I would have been wrong to change the headline to put a "positive spin" on my post.

It is not a matter of me being negative; the news was put on the Diabetes UK site for the purpose of us all reading it.
 
hanadr said:
It's convenient for the press and to hang a "blame culture" on diabetes. Sorry T1s! but there are now many people out there, who are convinced that diabetes ( they don't know there are several types) is a self inflicted condition and that we're no better than the smokers and alcoholics. We have caused this condition by our gluttony and in essence deserve what we get. <snip>
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Absolutely, and we're not the only ones affected by this. Non-smokers can get lung cancer too! . The press don't let a little thing like facts get in the way of a good headline, they think just because X can lead to Y, therefore Y is always caused by X.
 
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