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Diabetes the Hidden Killer

sabken

sabken

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Hello,
My name is Sue and I was diagnosed with Diabetes in 2000, I was 36, needless to say I was and am over-weight and had changed from an active job to a sedentary one (didn't help). On Monday I watched the above TV program and I strongly recommend everyone else to watch it, as it really frightened me.
How many of you watched this program?
Sue
 
Hi Sue and welcome to the website. Many people on here watched at least a part of the programme. As you said it was intended to frighten people, offered no hope and branded all type 2s as being lazy and overweight through following a poor diet. Frightening people rarely has the desired effect of persuading them to change their lifestyle, particularly when it is linked to the idea that there is no hope, the disease is progressive and the results inevitable. Why then should people change what they are doing? The fact that not all type 2 diabetics are overweight, some of us have a BMI below the median for our height, do not have diabetes in the family and have followed the NHS advice regarding a healthy diet before diagnosis was ignored. People on this site tend to take a more proactive approach to their health, changes to diet and exercise regime can make a difference and believe that the results portrayed in the programme are not inevitable. The anecdotal evidence is compelling and some researchers are producing scientific papers to back this up. Please read around the different forums. There is a lot of good advice and support.
 
sabken said:
Hello,
My name is Sue and I was diagnosed with Diabetes in 2000, I was 36, needless to say I was and am over-weight and had changed from an active job to a sedentary one (didn't help). On Monday I watched the above TV program and I strongly recommend everyone else to watch it, as it really frightened me.
How many of you watched this program?
Sue
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That programme has cause a bit of a furore (and a great deal of debate in how diabetes is portrayed!). It unfortunately honed in on the most negative effects of the disease. The whole point of the programme was to pinpoint how much it costs the NHS rather than being a constructive programme about diabetes. It highlighted how bad things could get for diabetes sufferers without really showing how it can be controlled and even reversed.

For someone very newly diagnosed its not a pleasant programme to watch.
 
Did not watch it basically cos I forgot it was on, thank goodness
 
Hi @sabken and @marilyn_anne and welcome to the forum. That program was shocking, but it was meant to be. Have a look at the other threads about it, linked by @Indy51 at post #2 above.
The complications shown are not inevitable. You can control this condition. You should watch the program by Jamie Owen on BBC3 the same night on diabetes, which is also linked in the Panorama thread.
 
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