Diabetes is fast becoming the word to be used by the media, health gurus et al when discussing obesity, lack of exercise and poor life style. In other words blame the sufferer.
The latest news being if we ate the above Med diet our risk of becoming diabetic would be slashed by 83 per cent. If that was true why should there be people with diabetes in Spain, France and Italy and Australia where fruit, salads and vegetables are plentiful. Fair enough there are people in the very obese classification who become diabetic but get back to normal when losing weight.
I am type 1 and have been for very many years - brought up and fed on rationed food in World War 2 and afterwords and like so many others always tried hard to eat the right food. Does the 17 percent who get diabetes mean type 1? Then they should say so! In fact some type 2's become diabetic when just over the age line.
I am fed up with Diabetes now being the dirty word and the scapegoat for many ills of the world.
Also some articles don't even mention the fact that if not discovered early enough and the right treatment given, then death is likely to be the outcome. I am sad and mad!!!!!!!!
The latest news being if we ate the above Med diet our risk of becoming diabetic would be slashed by 83 per cent. If that was true why should there be people with diabetes in Spain, France and Italy and Australia where fruit, salads and vegetables are plentiful. Fair enough there are people in the very obese classification who become diabetic but get back to normal when losing weight.
I am type 1 and have been for very many years - brought up and fed on rationed food in World War 2 and afterwords and like so many others always tried hard to eat the right food. Does the 17 percent who get diabetes mean type 1? Then they should say so! In fact some type 2's become diabetic when just over the age line.
I am fed up with Diabetes now being the dirty word and the scapegoat for many ills of the world.
Also some articles don't even mention the fact that if not discovered early enough and the right treatment given, then death is likely to be the outcome. I am sad and mad!!!!!!!!