AloeSvea
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Well, indeed. Aotearoa/New Zealand is a diabetes hot spot country. It is estimated that about 1/3rd of the country has prediabetes or diabetes proper. I have also lived in a country that is not a diabetes hot spot country (Sweden), just your standard stats, and it makes dinner parties and social occasions with food and drink very different, as a LCHF/Keto person/diabetes plagued person, as you can probably imagine. It feels like a plague to me! And I can get very passionate about it.
Lots of folks who have a lean, or lean and muscular body type 'by nature' in a high-carb, and high bad fats, food environment. Your standard western country food situation, but with a high health breakdown situation. Amputations and kidney failure are two of the possible outcomes for uncontrolled diabetes. And what an outcome. I have actually seen this doco series twice, since diagnosis. But I have to be in a certain frame of mind to do it. (I too would be on the path to kidney failure, statistically, as a SIRD, according to the endo diabetes researchers at Lund Uni in Sweden, if my blood glucose malfunctioning system was not so tightly controlled.)
It makes me feel very strongly about putting warning labels on sugary/carbonated drinks! (I believe I would have benefited from such a warning label. I drank a lot of schweppes in the lead up to my own diabetes diagnosis, and did not, believe it or not, in my diabetes innocent state, really get that causation connection.) And having a sugar tax. I think it is really time for Governmental health and social services agencies to get seriously involved in diabetes prevention, not just picking it up at diagnosis, or making estimations. Amputations and kidney failure is a rotten path to an accelerated too-early death, if you don't mind me being blunt. But if you have seen that doco series, bluntness is called for perhaps!
But alas, how far off are we from the diabetes prevention situation? Not to mention cardiovascular disease, which is a whole other related can of health-outcomes worms, if you follow the too-high insulin connection to cardiovascular breakdown too. In my country, listening to our health minister (last time I could stand listening) say why a sugar tax is not a good idea - I believe a long way. Too sad, too, too, too bad.
Lots of folks who have a lean, or lean and muscular body type 'by nature' in a high-carb, and high bad fats, food environment. Your standard western country food situation, but with a high health breakdown situation. Amputations and kidney failure are two of the possible outcomes for uncontrolled diabetes. And what an outcome. I have actually seen this doco series twice, since diagnosis. But I have to be in a certain frame of mind to do it. (I too would be on the path to kidney failure, statistically, as a SIRD, according to the endo diabetes researchers at Lund Uni in Sweden, if my blood glucose malfunctioning system was not so tightly controlled.)
It makes me feel very strongly about putting warning labels on sugary/carbonated drinks! (I believe I would have benefited from such a warning label. I drank a lot of schweppes in the lead up to my own diabetes diagnosis, and did not, believe it or not, in my diabetes innocent state, really get that causation connection.) And having a sugar tax. I think it is really time for Governmental health and social services agencies to get seriously involved in diabetes prevention, not just picking it up at diagnosis, or making estimations. Amputations and kidney failure is a rotten path to an accelerated too-early death, if you don't mind me being blunt. But if you have seen that doco series, bluntness is called for perhaps!
But alas, how far off are we from the diabetes prevention situation? Not to mention cardiovascular disease, which is a whole other related can of health-outcomes worms, if you follow the too-high insulin connection to cardiovascular breakdown too. In my country, listening to our health minister (last time I could stand listening) say why a sugar tax is not a good idea - I believe a long way. Too sad, too, too, too bad.