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Yet another article with glaring inaccuracies!

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Grrr!!! In an extensive article, no doubt to coincide with Diabetes Awareness Week, the Telegraph presents a 'shock, horror' report on Type 2 diabetes. The report contains this paragraph:

Type 1 diabetes is a condition in which the immune system attacks cells in the pancreas that produce insulin, the hormone that regulates blood sugar. It occurs in childhood, is unpredictable and irreversible (cases make up no more than 10 per cent of overall sufferers). Type 2, on the other hand, ought to be completely preventable. It is caused principally by obesity and poor diet
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1. Type 1 doesn't occur only in childhood, I was 49.

2. Type 2 diabetes is not completely preventable!

With extensive quotes from Diabetes UK repsresentatives, it's a shame they weren't asked to verify the information in the article before publishing yet more highly misleading, lazy journalism :(

Full article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8565492/The-sugar-rush-to-diabetes.html
 
My dad is diabetic, an uncle is diabetic They have always been slim and fit. My dad has it so it was more likely I'd get it but according to my mother I got it because I was fat and lazy. Thanks mother for nothing.
 
That is so bad you have to laugh, there has been not one ounce of effort made to get the basic facts..............

Wont be the first, wont be the last........
 
I get so angry reading articles like these. I just had to comment on it. I'm sure it won't matter but at least I feel that I've tried!
 
I liked your response, Unicornz.

The Torygraph once more opening their orifices to change boots...
 
Could we maybe do an open letter to some of the papers and other meeja pointing out the common errors and wrong assumptions they all keep making? I don't suppose it would make much difference, beyond helping us vent. Perhaps some of our tweeters could tweet it as well?
 
Northerner said:
Grrr!!! In an extensive article, no doubt to coincide with Diabetes Awareness Week, the Telegraph presents a 'shock, horror' report on Type 2 diabetes. The report contains this paragraph:



1. Type 1 doesn't occur only in childhood, I was 49.

2. Type 2 diabetes is not completely preventable!

With extensive quotes from Diabetes UK repsresentatives, it's a shame they weren't asked to verify the information in the article before publishing yet more highly misleading, lazy journalism :(

Full article here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/8565492/The-sugar-rush-to-diabetes.html
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Didn't bother to click link to read the article, enough information in above post😱 Grrrrrrrrr............as regards to the type 1 occurring only in childhood - I was 38,(extended childhood?) no history in the family, a bolt out of the blue, how could that ever be prevented?

Numpty journalism
 
Yeah... Himself was 42, the GMNT is 16. No history before Himself, either... Numpties indeed.
 
I wish I could comment on it. It is info like that that made me delay diagnosis
I looked up my symptoms but I was far too old for T1, T2 didn't fit either. It was far simpler to ignore it and explain the frequent drinking because it was hot weather, the urination because of the drinking and the weight loss all down to the gardening.
 
HelenM said:
I wish I could comment on it. It is info like that that made me delay diagnosis
I looked up my symptoms but I was far too old for T1, T2 didn't fit either. It was far simpler to ignore it and explain the frequent drinking because it was hot weather, the urination because of the drinking and the weight loss all down to the gardening.
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That's a very good point Helen. I was similar in a way - running lots, had many of the symptoms including inexplicable weight loss of 2st over the preceding 2 years, but it never once entered my mind that it might be diabetes which, like many (if not the majority) I associated T1 with children and T2 with unhealthy lifestyle and obesity. If it hadn't been for the virus that pushed me over the edge I could easily have continued ignoring it.
 
I am a life long veggie- not a bad diet and I was normal weight or a bit over , certainly never obese. It is upsetting to have these accusations made.. My mum also not over weight and a very good diet has also got type 2 ( diagnosed at 94 though so prob not that typical!!)

I have now been called skinny 🙂
 
No wonder there are a lot of people that keep their Diabetes secret, makes me mad 😡 when I read this kinda "journalism".
 
Just read your response unicornz - well done !
 
I too have been moved to reply.

I've long since known that the Daily Mail is the middle-class equivalent of the Sun, and the articles they publish are often suspect if not downright crackpot (stuff on the Bible Codes, for instance -- any mathematician will tell you that if a text is large enough and your search method sufficiently ingenious, you can find whatever you like in it), and I'm now beginning to suspect that the same is true of the Telegraph, except of course that it's the upper-class equivalent. 🙄
 
Huh!!! I was 61 for godsakes!! and I had all the classic symptoms of T1. Autoimmune caput which incleds thyroid.. My DSN said you can be any age and be diagnosed with T1. she said that previous week to me she even diagnosed an old lady of 80 with T1 ! WHY don't they ever talk to the people that know instead of making these assumptions :(
 
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The trouble is that they often seek comment from organisations like Diabetes UK which gives the impression that they are well researched, but Diabetes UK has no control over how the finished article is written and their comments can get lost in the fabrications that the journalist is eager to put across. :(
 
Northerner said:
The trouble is that they often seek comment from organisations like Diabetes UK which gives the impression that they are well researched, but Diabetes UK has no control over how the finished article is written and their comments can get lost in the fabrications that the journalist is eager to put across. :(
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That is very worrying..:(
 
sorry

sorry I am I missing something here should I be obese and have a poor diet Ihave never been or had either and i am type 2 should i start to eat Cr@* and stop exersising to fit my meda profile?
what a bunch of xxxxxxxxxx I get sick of being expected to be obese and unfit it makes me want to spit!!!
 
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