Type II Diabetes

Looks like this disease is gonna cost NZ big time by 2021. How do we go about fixing this problem? Education? Changing lifestyle? Genetic Research into the disease?
In my view its a combination of lifestyle and genetics that causes this problem. Some people are more prone to getting it than others. Your views?

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyID=3005046

Everything happens for a reason.

So many disorders are inter-related.

Why would people be consuming high sugar products in the first place?

yeh. why would people drink V and suck lollipops

prevention of this is a bit of an ask with the amount of understanding we have today... it just happens. fuck, i still smoke, cuttin down my sugar intake is way down my list of priorites! but diabetes only starts costing bigtime when it's poorly managed, thats when the body starts packing up. it's usually quite managble with a bit of education and a few lifestyle changes. i've heard some real promising research into treatment and prevention, it's def in the pipeline... but till then i think early detection and ongoing education are our best bet.

i'd be more worried about the aging crisis... thats on our doorstep now!

but like fraz said, it's all for a reason...
we get sick cause there are too many of us, mother nature is putting her foot down, and she's gonna have the last laugh at the end of the day.

Cravings for certain foods are because they contain an ingredient or have an effect that the body has a need for. The problem is when the food has other ingredients or effects that are unwanted.

Cravings can be controlled by finding out exactly what it is that we crave for and providing for its need alone. We could go into a lot of detail about these things but how many of us actually have the time?

It cracks me up how all these pressure groups are trying to get more overweight people into womens magizenes so that people don't feel bad for being fat. Yet at the same time we have all these growing health problems cause by people being so damn unhealthy.

the point is more about getting normal people into the magazines rather than stick insect models. They are not wanting to promote people who are fat, just a range of normal sizes. Obviously peoples sizes vary quite a bit and some of the people labelled as fat are actually just large, think the female equivalent of an all black. Actually dont think of that cause the image isn''t very good, but you get my point.

Isn't type 2 the gentic one and type one result of poor diet and weight??

Hmmm i can't remember, i remember researching them when my best bud got the isulin needle one when she was 12. It was scary.

Btw, i can't be botehred reading your article. TIA :S

Nice call Spacecadet

Trapper I see your point. Although I see a big difference between size 14 and morbid obesity/unhealthiness. Besides, anorexia isn't all that healthy either (not that all thin people are anorexic).

Type II diabetes is higher amoungst our younger generation now because parents do not have time to prepare home cooked meals or prepare a daily lunch for a child to take to school. How many of you had half a packet of choccy biccies, packet of chippies, fizzy drink and pies for lunch every day of the week - then on top of that spending money to buy sweets from the dairy after school? I bet most of you thought your parents were trolls for making you take the yucky jam sandwiches with a piece of fruit of some kind. The kind of lunches that you gave to the stray dog on the way to school. We live in a society now where we live in the fast lane and to prepare raw ingredients into a fabulous meal is too much of a chore and it is easier to go to the drive thru on the way home and for those that are thinking that eating an indian take-away is healthier - think again. Think of all that "cream" in those sauces we all enjoy. It's all about everything in moderation. By just deleting sugar from your diet is not enough. Exercise plays an important role as well. We do not need to aspire to being stick thin. You do not need all these fabulous potions and shakes on offer these days. All you need is time. Make time for the simple things in life like grocery shopping, preparing a healthy meal, exercising for enjoyment (not slaving over a hot stove followed by a rigorous programme at the gym). - REMEMBER PEOPLE - IT'S ALL ABOUT EVERYTHING IN MODERATION

Jam and fresh fruit = mega sugar

Correct pussycakes. Society has become more sedantry and this is one of the side effects :/

look at the shit food being peddled to the kids thru the tuck shops

Screening in schools for high risk candidates with education of the causes and preventions.

Also there should be tax breaks or subsidies in conjuction with business in New Zealand to provide more preventitive medicine and excersice programs through places of employment.

THE DISEASE NEEDS TO BE WIPED OUT!!!!

There should be genetic screening programmes to filter out humans from the ecosystem.

^^^ don't do that, it'd put me out of buisness

Frazzle: What?

Would you suggest moving them into concerntration camps and gassing them?

Death to fat people!

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omg today my doctor sent me off for a blood test for diabetes ... is this ironic?

hey fraz come here so i can filter u out from the ecosystem

hahaha no really being human is bad the virus must be eliminated!

I doing my part see I'm getting blood tested and everything...

Seriously though it will be interesting to see if the Human Genome project results in a world like that in Gattica. Can you imagine relationships involving consideration of all of one's genetic deficiencies?

other way around aims...

type 1 is the genetic and type 2 is the enviromental factors etc...

diabetes leads to lower healing rates ionce injury occurs tot he skinetc. the big cost to the country is the fact that ulcers etc occur and are not looked after and lead to infection and amputation.

and you don't necessarily need to be fat to get diabetes...