That part of the report slapped me too... facile and insulting.. I wish the BBC would report the tired inadequate advice which is given to newly diagnosed T2 people. The suggestion seems to be that T2 people are burger stuffing cake munching wasters wasting tax payers money.... or am I just over sensitive having been for many years what I thought was a healthy eater who still ended up T2. Sure we all need to take a grip and be responsible for our health but the medical profession still seems to prefer to dish out drugs as first resort, because they think we are too stupid to work on an effective food and health regime. and for those who do need medications it is hardly fair to suggest that diabetes is self created.
I am still new to this but the public ( I mean non-diabetic public) has precious little understanding of diabetes, and what they do seem to get creates a very simplistic rather misleading picture. Over and over again we are warned about rising levels of obesity and predictions that in 20 years time a large part of the population is heading for a blubbery early death... from my recent experience some of the people who are going to be on the best diet are us T2 diabetics, whether or not we need help from drugs, working to control our weight and BG with diet as best we can, while all those lardy non diabetics sink in a swamp of fat sugar and salt which they mistake for food !!!
