UK in ‘rapidly escalating’ diabetes crisis as cases top 5m, report says

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The UK is experiencing a “rapidly escalating” diabetes crisis, with cases topping five million for the first time and under-40s increasingly affected, a report has revealed.

About 90% of diabetes patients have type 2, a condition much more likely to develop if people are overweight. About two-thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.

A report published by Diabetes UK on Thursday reveals an all-time high for type 2 and type 1 combined of 4.3m officially diagnosed cases and another 850,000 people living with one or other of the conditions but still to be diagnosed. Another 2.4 million people are at high risk of developing the type 2 form in the UK.

“These latest figures show we’re in the grip of a rapidly escalating diabetes crisis, with spiralling numbers of people now living with type 2 diabetes and millions at high risk of developing the condition,” said Chris Askew, the chief executive of Diabetes UK.

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UK in ‘rapidly escalating’ diabetes crisis as cases top 5m, report says

Diabetes UK study also expresses concern about growing number of younger people with type 2
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I was astounded that in my Health Authority there were nearly 60,000 registered diabetics but only a third had had their annual checks. I suspect those were the ones proactively managing their condition not the people who really needed them.
It is staggering numbers, no wonder the system is struggling to cope.
 
Northerner said:
all-time high for type 2 and type 1 combined of 4.3m officially diagnosed cases
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Does this number include those in remission.. ?
"officially diagnosed" should do so the number will always increase.
 
This is more complex than simply the increase in obesity. People who develop Type 2 Diabetes are living longer because of increased detection rates, and more successful treatment. And they are living long enough to breed, so genetic factors come into play when they have children.

Henry VIII clearly had Type 2 diabetes. He was grossly obese, he had ulcers on his legs that refused to heal for years. And he had trouble in the bedroom, unable to perform as he got older. The only reason he made it as far as 57 years when he died, that was because he had a high protein and fat diet, with lower carbs.

That said, the obesity problem is clearly the main problem. And among poor people. When i was a child in the 1950s you could always spot poor people - they were thin. They didn't have the money to get obese.
 
Interestingly, Henry ate an awful ot of carbs.
Allegedly one of his favourite dishes was an orange and apple tarte.


‘To make tarte of apples and orange peels. Take your oranges, and lay them in water a day and a night, then seethe them in fair water and honey. Let them seeth till they be soft. The let them soak in the syrup a day and a night. Then take them forth and cut them small, and then make your tart and season your apples with sugar, cinnamon and ginger, and put in a piece of butter. Lay a course of apples, and between the same course of apples, a course of oranges, and so course by course. And season your oranges as you seasoned your apples, with somewhat more sugar, then lay on the lid and put in the oven. When it is almost baked, take the rosewater and sugar, and boil them together till it be somewhat thick, then take out the tart. Take a feather and spread the rosewater and sugar on the lid, and set it into the oven again, and let the sugar harden on the lid, and let it not burn .’


Ingredients :


  • Seville ( bitter) Oranges
  • Sugar & Rosewater
  • Apples
  • Sugar
  • Cinnamon
  • Ginger
  • A batch of shortcrust pastry
And all the beer, wine and mead.

Definitely very high carb, high protein, high fat, (although the royal diet had a lot of low fat venison and similar animals, and organ meat), so it suggests simply the obesity.

He was thin and active until, a jousting accident damaged his leg, so the following lack of exercise didn't help him either.

Or maybe he simply died of the infections it caused?
Or drank and ate himself to death?
 
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There was a study a while back in the USA where rats had to choose between cocaine and sugar to eat. Guess what they chose? You guessed it, sugar. Sugar is addictive. Most of us are addicted to sugar. I know I am, and I always think about a normal diet as including breads, cakes, biscuits, snacks, chocolate, sugary drinks, etc. It's not. We are saturated with these sugary refined carbohydrates around us all the time and think it is normal to eat them. It's not.
100 years ago our diet would have looked a lot different. We might have had boiled potatoes, meat, and green veggies, and water to drink most nights, and breakfast would have been something like a chicken egg. We would have been more physically active as well, growing our own food on the farms.
It doesn't help that the food industry puts sugar into all kinds of things to get and keep us addicted. Take a walk down any UK candy aisle and see what non nutritious sugar crap is available.
I feel guilty in a way as I am a shareholder of coca cola, like many of you who have portfolios, and let's be honest, we want that company to do well and pay a dividend. So we ourselves are to blame for this rise in health problems.
 
For a really good examination of what has caused the upsurge in obesity I'd highly recommend listening to 'A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand' Series 1 on BBC Sounds. It's all about ultra-processed food that we all consume to some extent, but some almost exclusively rely on. It opened my eyes to how much of the modern food industry is worse than tobacco companies these days 😱 :( Sugar is only part of the story.
 
Northerner said:
For a really good examination of what has caused the upsurge in obesity I'd highly recommend listening to 'A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand' Series 1 on BBC Sounds. It's all about ultra-processed food that we all consume to some extent, but some almost exclusively rely on. It opened my eyes to how much of the modern food industry is worse than tobacco companies these days 😱 :( Sugar is only part of the story.
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Yep, the modern food industry is out of control, and we just think it is normal and only think of hard core drugs and smoking as bad for us. The truth is like 90% of the stuff in a supermarket is bad for us and not needed for our bodies. The food industry gets us addicted and sick, then their buddies in Big Pharma medicate us and tell us not to change our diets, keeping us reliant on that system so shareholders are happy and we die younger than we should.
 
Admiral Benbow said:
There was a study a while back in the USA where rats had to choose between cocaine and sugar to eat. Guess what they chose? You guessed it, sugar. Sugar is addictive. Most of us are addicted to sugar. I know I am, and I always think about a normal diet as including breads, cakes, biscuits, snacks, chocolate, sugary drinks, etc. It's not. We are saturated with these sugary refined carbohydrates around us all the time and think it is normal to eat them. It's not.
100 years ago our diet would have looked a lot different. We might have had boiled potatoes, meat, and green veggies, and water to drink most nights, and breakfast would have been something like a chicken egg. We would have been more physically active as well, growing our own food on the farms.
It doesn't help that the food industry puts sugar into all kinds of things to get and keep us addicted. Take a walk down any UK candy aisle and see what non nutritious sugar crap is available.
I feel guilty in a way as I am a shareholder of coca cola, like many of you who have portfolios, and let's be honest, we want that company to do well and pay a dividend. So we ourselves are to blame for this rise in health problems.
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If that choice was given you, which would you choose?

Maybe the rats just realised sugar was a food, and would keep them alive, and cocaine wasn't, and they'd die?
 
Docb said:
Who knows what is in the mind of a rat.
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Google images would suggest champagne - though perhaps that’s just celebrity rats?

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See what those researchers didn't mention was those rats had previously been in rehab for drug addiction, so fair play to them for choosing sugar.
 
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Northerner said:
For a really good examination of what has caused the upsurge in obesity I'd highly recommend listening to 'A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand' Series 1 on BBC Sounds. It's all about ultra-processed food that we all consume to some extent, but some almost exclusively rely on. It opened my eyes to how much of the modern food industry is worse than tobacco companies these days 😱 :( Sugar is only part of the story.
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I’m fascinated by these two - they have such a difficult, stressful relationship and don’t seem to mind allowing the radio-listening public front row seats! 😱
 
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I’m fascinated by these two - they have such a difficult, stressful relationship and don’t seem to mind allowing the radio-listening public front row seats! 😱
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Amazing what people will do if there is TV money in it. Oops, being a bit cynical again 😉
 
Northerner said:
The UK is experiencing a “rapidly escalating” diabetes crisis, with cases topping five million for the first time and under-40s increasingly affected, a report has revealed.

About 90% of diabetes patients have type 2, a condition much more likely to develop if people are overweight. About two-thirds of adults in the UK are overweight or obese.

A report published by Diabetes UK on Thursday reveals an all-time high for type 2 and type 1 combined of 4.3m officially diagnosed cases and another 850,000 people living with one or other of the conditions but still to be diagnosed. Another 2.4 million people are at high risk of developing the type 2 form in the UK.

“These latest figures show we’re in the grip of a rapidly escalating diabetes crisis, with spiralling numbers of people now living with type 2 diabetes and millions at high risk of developing the condition,” said Chris Askew, the chief executive of Diabetes UK.

www.theguardian.com

UK in ‘rapidly escalating’ diabetes crisis as cases top 5m, report says

Diabetes UK study also expresses concern about growing number of younger people with type 2
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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When I was diagnosed as a very bad diabetic at the age of 65 I'd had the advice that fats were bad and carbs were essential for good health since my early 20s - even in the teeth of the experience I'd had trying to lose weight on that diet.
GPs, nurses, dieticians and other health care workers were adamant that they were right and I was wrong.
Until HCPs accept that the accepted dogma is wrong and that people who put on weight easily are not deluded lying gluttons who will not comply with instructions, it isn't going to get any better.
 
Very interesting edition of The Food Programme on BBC Sounds, talking about the NICE approval of semaglutide, but aso a wider discussion of the causes of obesity and how it might be addressed without resorting to drugs - laying the blame firmly at the door of the Western diet and political timidity to address the problems via policy changes. It's not really news as this has all been discussed for many years on this forum - and, indeed, semaglutide and its analogues have been prescribed to people with diabetes for around a decade or so - but the NICE decision to make it available specifically as a weight loss/appetite-suppressant drug to non-Ds is making the discussion more mainstream 🙂

Worth a listen! 🙂

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The Food Programme - Weight-loss drugs - BBC Sounds

Is hacking our biology the solution to an unhealthy food system and bad food culture?
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I think that semaglutide will be a passing fad. Yes, it suppresses appetite, but with the effect of people feeling nauseated at the prospect of eating. Most people will face the prospect of feeling sick for two years too much to bear.

And as the manufacturers admit, stop the treatment and the weight goes on again.
 
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