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<blockquote data-quote="Mr Happy" data-source="post: 386159" data-attributes="member: 68897"><p>Flakey, I too am a statistician by trade and can certainly confirm there are many statistics generated just to 'prove' a theory as opposed to gaining knowledge. The correlation between weight and diabetes appears relatively clear but is it also the mass production of food, genetics, food types etc that have an underlying influence?</p><p></p><p>Again though, one could argue that people are obviously putting themselves at increased risk and also categorically state that we are becoming a nation of fat porkers. Once more, I don't see what he said as wrong but confess he may not have told the whole story. Isn't this often the modern media though, shock tactics, snippets of information? Perhaps partly to do with the nation being too lazy to absorb information ;-)</p><p></p><p>As for the 'blame game' the majority of us know whether we have done something wrong or not. Personally, as a T1 I was probably a ticking time bomb but I am pretty sure 3 years of stupid drinking at University far from helped. Whether or not one day the government are thinking of using this 'blame' to reduce support in the future is another matter and a very tricky debate. We pay tax on food, cigs and alcohol which funds the nhs and the cleaning of MPs moats. As has also been said, should sportsmen (and women) pay for their injuries? </p><p></p><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mr Happy, post: 386159, member: 68897"] Flakey, I too am a statistician by trade and can certainly confirm there are many statistics generated just to 'prove' a theory as opposed to gaining knowledge. The correlation between weight and diabetes appears relatively clear but is it also the mass production of food, genetics, food types etc that have an underlying influence? Again though, one could argue that people are obviously putting themselves at increased risk and also categorically state that we are becoming a nation of fat porkers. Once more, I don't see what he said as wrong but confess he may not have told the whole story. Isn't this often the modern media though, shock tactics, snippets of information? Perhaps partly to do with the nation being too lazy to absorb information ;-) As for the 'blame game' the majority of us know whether we have done something wrong or not. Personally, as a T1 I was probably a ticking time bomb but I am pretty sure 3 years of stupid drinking at University far from helped. Whether or not one day the government are thinking of using this 'blame' to reduce support in the future is another matter and a very tricky debate. We pay tax on food, cigs and alcohol which funds the nhs and the cleaning of MPs moats. As has also been said, should sportsmen (and women) pay for their injuries? Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] [/QUOTE]
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