"Why I'd rather have HIV than diabetes"

[Copepod]

On World AIDS Day, another mention of an article by Dr Max Pemberton from 19 April 2014. Text and tags are clear, although headline isn't - type 2 diabetes only, with no mention of type 1 nor any other types.

http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9185591/why-id-rather-have-hiv-than-diabetes/

Perhaps a huge public education programme about preventing / delaying onset of type 2 diabetes, along the lines of "erotic quarrying" as one of my friends described the cinema adverts, would be worth trying?

 

[Andy HB]

My first thought when reading your post was "what tosh"! But, he makes good points when the article is read through.

I'm not convinced that type 2 progression need be as bad as it clearly is though. I feel that it is a failure in treatment and also a failure to educate people with type 2 properly.

Andy