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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Argentina's president Cristina Kirchner has caused outrage by saying that diabetes afflicts the rich because 'they eat a lot and live sedentary lives'.
She revealed her ignorance of the illness on Tuesday during a presentation on the country's science technology and innovation programme, called 'Innovative Argentina 2020', which took place in her Buenos Aires presidential home La Casa Rosada.
After explaining that an Argentine laboratory was exploring and developing new treatments for diabetes that she hoped would help create jobs , she said: 'There are 80 million diabetics in the world and they also have high purchasing power', reported Argentine newspaper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-affluent-eat-live-sedentary-lifestyles.html
Silly woman! 🙄 Erm..there are (at least) 300m people with diabetes in the world
She revealed her ignorance of the illness on Tuesday during a presentation on the country's science technology and innovation programme, called 'Innovative Argentina 2020', which took place in her Buenos Aires presidential home La Casa Rosada.
After explaining that an Argentine laboratory was exploring and developing new treatments for diabetes that she hoped would help create jobs , she said: 'There are 80 million diabetics in the world and they also have high purchasing power', reported Argentine newspaper.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...s-affluent-eat-live-sedentary-lifestyles.html
Silly woman! 🙄 Erm..there are (at least) 300m people with diabetes in the world