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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Feb 19, 2024 18:33:01 GMT
A million people have undiagnosed diabetes and a further 5 million are "on the cusp of developing it"
This BBC report MAKES NO MENTION OF OBESITY ... maybe because they don't want to be accused of being "fattist"?
My experience of the substantial number of people I know who are obese and have diabetes is that NONE OF THEM are "interested in" losing weight.
Even at the hospital where I have my dialysis, where most of the patients are there because their obesity has damaged their kidneys, several of the staff are obese ... and display the "I like being fat" attitude that is common with obese people. The fattest nurse there is a ward sister ... she's over 20 stone.
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Post by borchester on Feb 19, 2024 18:41:37 GMT
I have diabetes
And I am fat.
But my wife is a great cook and Metformin is cheap so sod it.  |
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Feb 19, 2024 19:12:46 GMT
In the early 90s, when the obesity rate was 13%, GPs had the right to tell patients who made no effort to lose weight that they would have to find another doctor. Employers had the right to dismiss obese staff and refuse to employ people who were obese. This campaign came to an abrupt halt with publicity about a doctor who told a Jewish patient who was making excuses about why she was not able to lose weight: "They managed to lose weight in Auschwitz, didn't they?"
The term "Obesity crisis" began to be used in the early 80s ... with publicity about how it had rising from less than 2% in the 1950s to an "alarming" 8%.
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Post by sandypine on Feb 19, 2024 19:30:12 GMT
A million people have undiagnosed diabetes and a further 5 million are "on the cusp of developing it" This BBC report MAKES NO MENTION OF OBESITY ... maybe because they don't want to be accused of being "fattist"? My experience of the substantial number of people I know who are obese and have diabetes is that NONE OF THEM are "interested in" losing weight. Even at the hospital where I have my dialysis, where most of the patients are there because their obesity has damaged their kidneys, several of the staff are obese ... and display the "I like being fat" attitude that is common with obese people. The fattest nurse there is a ward sister ... she's over 20 stone. Obesity is not the only risk factor, ethnicity plays an important part as well. If we are intent on controlling the increase in diabetes we have to control obesity and control immigration. |
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Post by borchester on Feb 19, 2024 19:56:36 GMT
In the early 90s, when the obesity rate was 13%, GPs had the right to tell patients who made no effort to lose weight that they would have to find another doctor. Employers had the right to dismiss obese staff and refuse to employ people who were obese. This campaign came to an abrupt halt with publicity about a doctor who told a Jewish patient who was making excuses about why she was not able to lose weight: "They managed to lose weight in Auschwitz, didn't they?" Ah, that was probably my old doctor. |
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