Need-To-Know Information About Global Diabetes Epidemic

Aimed at increasing awareness of diabetes around the World – the event also forms part of November’s Diabetes month in the UK.

Chris Askew, chief executive of Diabetes United Kingdom, said: “The number of people with diabetes is rising at an alarming rate and every year there are more than 20,000 people who die tragically young as a result of the condition”. Type 2 is also called adult-onset diabetes.

“Ideally all children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes should be referred to the service as the potential long-term complications can be serious”, she said.

It is already known that having diabetes doubles someone’s risk of having a heart attack and the charity is ploughing more than £3million into research to find out more about the link.

According to the Luxembourg Ministry of Health, an estimated 4.5 percent of the population has the disease in the Grand Duchy alone.

“In fact many people really don’t realise that there are two separate types of diabetes”.

Accordingly, all state institutions, food outlets, hotels and restaurants have been requested to serve tea without sugar from today, the World Diabetes Day. Type 2 diabetes also seems to run in families. Most common is type II, which is caused by obesity, lack of physical activity or when body fails to make insulin or when sugar levels are not controlled.

Hardly mentioned is the other group of diabetics.

The alarming diabetes emergency facing the NHS is highlighted by figures showing it has soared by 65% to nearly 3.5million sufferers in 10 years. Lifestyle correction is a must, but one can not stop insulin intake. “People with type one diabetes typically make none of their own insulin and therefore require insulin injections for survival”, it said. This is because either the body is incapable of producing insulin or the insulin that is produced by the body is insufficient or the body has certain cells that do not respond properly to the insulin produced by the pancreas.

This photo taken Wednesday, May 13, 2015, shows insulin pills taken by Hayden Murphy, 13, who is participating in a study in Plainfield, Ill.to try to prevent or at least delay Type 1 diabetes.

For the Type 1 diabetic, cutting back on sugar will not heal them. That doesn’t stop well-meaning people from telling parents of children with Type 1 diabetes that healthier habits can fix their children. Type 1 diabetes is extremely misunderstood by the general public.

This year’s theme, “Healthy Living Starts at Breakfast”, focuses on diabetes education and prevention, so all people in the community are being urged to check and monitor their weight, BMI, blood glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure levels. Officials say, one of the best things a diabetic can do is walk to stay healthy. People that are overweight have a far greater chance of getting type 2 diabetes.