Posted on 01/31/2022 6:33:13 AM PST by ConservativeMind
More than 100,000 Americans died from diabetes in 2021, marking the second consecutive year for that grim milestone and spurring a call for a federal mobilization similar to the fight against HIV/AIDS.
The new figures come as an expert panel urges Congress to overhaul diabetes care and prevention, including recommendations to move beyond a reliance on medical interventions alone.
The nation’s toll from diabetes has increased sharply, surpassing 100,000 deaths in each of the last two years and representing a new record. Diabetes-related deaths surged 17% in 2020 and 15% in 2021 compared to the prepandemic level in 2019.
…"Type 2 diabetes itself is relatively preventable, so it's even more tragic that so many deaths are occurring."
In a new report, the National Clinical Care Commission created by Congress said that the United States must adopt a more comprehensive approach to prevent more people from developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form, and to help people who are already diagnosed avoid life-threatening complications. About 37 million Americans, or 11% of the population, have diabetes, and one in three Americans will develop the chronic disease in their lifetime if current trends persist, according to the commission.
"We aren’t going to cure the problem of diabetes in the United States with medical interventions," Herman told Reuters.
…The commission also highlighted the risks of overtreatment in older adults with type 2 diabetes. Reuters wrote about that risk in November and how a drug industry campaign for an aggressive treatment target led to an epidemic of potentially lethal incidents of low blood sugar, or hypoglycemia.
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My father-in-law has Type 2 diabetes, but is on drugs, not yet on insulin (except for his recent time with COVID). He eats pizza, milk, Pepsi, and candy, but won’t eat vegetables. There are no supplements or drugs that can undo such habits. His blood pressure is uncontrolled. So much of this points back to his eating habits and a lack of exercise. It’s been this way for at least a handful of years.
Type 2 diabetes is capable of being put into remission and even reversed. Doctors knew this could be done before the advent of insulin, with a low carb strict diet allowing diabetics to live. Additionally, the American Diabetic Association in the early 2000s admitted low carb diets stopped diabetes cold, but refused to ever encourage such a diet because it was harder than the high carb diet with medicines (which just make you get worse, more slowly).
Please do what you can to minimize your diabetic risk. It is preventable.
Surely, there is an mRNA solution in the wings...
Oh, put Fauci in charge of this effort. He has tons of experience in this sort of thing.
Quick, call Dr. Fraudxi!
Sounds like 32,000 excess deaths during pandemic due to diabetes, not counting those where diabetes was a contributing factor in coronavirus deaths.
“If we save one life” ignores all other costs.
Demand that SUGAR and CORN SYRUP be removed from food. Corporate America is killing generations.
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“aggressive treatment target led to an epidemic of potentially lethal incidents”
Gee, that sounds familiar for some reason.
...unless you're type-1...you know...real diabetes.
It's right there on the labels. Read them and don't buy that junk.
I don’t buy it, but many do. Look how obese America has become.
We obviously need mandated diet and exercise programs on TV every morning and evening so that we can be kept healthy by Big Brother. And you all thought those big screen TVs were just for watching TV................... ..
Lock down the country for two years...people stay home and EAT out of sheer boredom...
Dr. Jason Fung
We didn’t have an obesity problem when sugar was the only sweetener............
I wonder if closing gyms, getting drunk and eating GrubHub helped…
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