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Newspaper today

I think the article needs answering by older members of the forum. We can only surmise as to our reaction.

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0714/010714-Diabetes-treatments-do-more-harm-than-good

"A typical person with type 2 diabetes who begins treatment at age 45 and reduces their A1c by 1% may gain up to 10 months of healthy life. At age 75, they may gain as little as 3 weeks of healthy life. Whether this is worth 10-15 years of pills and injections with potential side-effects is ultimately up to the patient.”
 
Thanks Catherinecherub the link you have shown is the full article rather than the compressed one in my newspaper, I am one of the older persons, being 59, and whilst I have adjusted my eating and exercise habits, I am still far from sure if I am doing the right things. Will continue to muddle along and keep reading both here and in the general press and see what I can make with all the advice given. But doubtless will continue to ask some rather mundane questions until I can get a handle on this.


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Bloody depressing really isn't it!!!
 
Jaylee said:
The OPs article must be based on old news.. Professor Yudkin has been dead for the past 19 years..! ;)
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-john-yudkin-1593131.html
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He must have come back from the dead then because he is listed as being on the Executive Committee of the National Health Action Party which was formed in 2012.;)
The one you are referring to is J.Yudkin and the one in the OP's article is J.S. Judkin..

http://encyclopine.org/en/National_Health_Action_Party
 
Jaylee said:
Lol, is it possible that sugar he wrote about in his 1972 book "Pure white & deadly" persevered him like jam? :confused:
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Jaylee, this is a different Prof. John Yudkin - very much alive. He was my consultant at diabetes clinic at the Whittitngton hospital less that 10 years ago
 
Yep, sorry guys.. Just trying to "positive spin" this... "Advances in medicine" and all that..!:D

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Bloody depressing really isn't it!!!
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No more depressing than any other part of medicine really - you always have to decide if the benefits of a treatment outweigh the risk (e.g. Aspirin prevents heart attacks, but it's no good taking it if your heart attack risk is so low that taking the drug will cause more deaths from bleeding than heart attack deaths it prevents)
 
I'm a cynic when it comes to believing anything that experts and governments sound off on.
Experts and governments are what have screwed the world up!
One day I'm hearing that the NHS will not be able to cope with the explosion in diabetes.
The next day some expert is telling us that treatment is pointless anyway .... go figure.
 
I used to get the Daily Express, but gave up in despair as they keep headlining some health scare or other every day, or alternatively some new wonder treatment that'll help us to live longer. Being a cynic about such things, I believe we need to look after our own health where we can, using commonsense and research to and trying things to see if they actually work for you as an individual.

Much like the mantra of that just standing up and moving around is good for you. To gain benefit from any exercise or work, you actually need to be doing stuff regularly for a decent period of time at a rate that you actually know that you've been active. A sedentary stroll to the loo isn't that helpful apart from the natural relief that it gives. :(

Being sensible about stuff seems to me to be the way forward on all of this type of stuff.
 
You just get every thing sorted and hit and killed by a bus.
ln other words do what you can the best you can enjoy what you can...whatever happens you are going to die and who is to say it was early or late?
 
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