Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
The NHS Future Forum's suggestion that health professionals should routinely talk to patients about their smoking, drinking, diet and exercise habits is born of the brutal truth that more people are harming and killing themselves with their lifestyles.
Obesity, diabetes and alcohol-induced damage are not ticking timebombs, they are exploding already. The number of people in the UK with diabetes has risen by almost 130,000 to 2.9 million in the last year. That is up by almost 50% in just four years (2006-7 to 2009-10). Some 90% of these 2.9 million have Type 2 diabetes, which almost always develops in people who are very overweight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/30/patients-with-unhealthy-lifestyles
Obesity, diabetes and alcohol-induced damage are not ticking timebombs, they are exploding already. The number of people in the UK with diabetes has risen by almost 130,000 to 2.9 million in the last year. That is up by almost 50% in just four years (2006-7 to 2009-10). Some 90% of these 2.9 million have Type 2 diabetes, which almost always develops in people who are very overweight.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/dec/30/patients-with-unhealthy-lifestyles