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<blockquote data-quote="KarinB" data-source="post: 376549" data-attributes="member: 52797"><p>Now you see that comment of yours is typical of a T2 diabetic jumping to conclusions.. Now where in my post did I mention being overweight? Nowhere, What I did say is "if you don't look after yourself". Now seeing as you have brought the word overweight into the subject I will comment on this. If T2 is caused purely by being overweight then why should every taxpayer in the country pay for medications etc. when you cannot keep your weight under control. I live with three other family members and we are all slim and manage to keep our weight to a good weight. If I or any one of us chose to start lying around eating more calories than we were going to burn up, get in the car and drive everywhere and do no exercise at all that would be another 3 potential people requiring free medication if we ended up T2 - our NHS is not a bottomless pit. </p><p>When the media report about the enormous strain that diabetes is going to have on the NHS it really makes me annoyed as my son, with T1, as like many others, is tarred with the same brush as the T2 who are the ones that the media are talking about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KarinB, post: 376549, member: 52797"] Now you see that comment of yours is typical of a T2 diabetic jumping to conclusions.. Now where in my post did I mention being overweight? Nowhere, What I did say is "if you don't look after yourself". Now seeing as you have brought the word overweight into the subject I will comment on this. If T2 is caused purely by being overweight then why should every taxpayer in the country pay for medications etc. when you cannot keep your weight under control. I live with three other family members and we are all slim and manage to keep our weight to a good weight. If I or any one of us chose to start lying around eating more calories than we were going to burn up, get in the car and drive everywhere and do no exercise at all that would be another 3 potential people requiring free medication if we ended up T2 - our NHS is not a bottomless pit. When the media report about the enormous strain that diabetes is going to have on the NHS it really makes me annoyed as my son, with T1, as like many others, is tarred with the same brush as the T2 who are the ones that the media are talking about. [/QUOTE]
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