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Exclusive-U.S. diabetes deaths top 100,000 for second straight year, federal panel urges new strategy (Meds alone can’t address it)
Reuters / Yahoo ^ | Jan. 31, 2022 | Chad Terhune and Robin Respaut

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: cornsyrup; diabetes; diet; exercise; hfcs; highfructosecorn; insulin; sugar; type2diabetes
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To: ConservativeMind

They intentionally killed many diabetics by putting them on a ventilator and Remdesivir for COVID.


21 posted on 01/31/2022 6:46:22 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Or, people could take responsibility in their decisions.


22 posted on 01/31/2022 6:47:13 AM PST by EEGator
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To: stars & stripes forever

Why don’t you move to a COMMUNIST country, where they tell you what to eat? LEAVE AMERICANS ALONE! We will eat what we want. “stars & stripes forever” my foot. Food commie!


23 posted on 01/31/2022 6:47:40 AM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: ConservativeMind

Yep! The problem is that the Left is forcing us to eat more carbs, since there isn’t much left when you remove fat and protein (meaning meat) from the human diet.

So we’re cornered. The solution is known and understood, but cannot be pushed, as it will lead to more meat consumption and thus destroy the planet, from cows farts.


24 posted on 01/31/2022 6:47:45 AM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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To: C210N

At the low, low price of $100 / dose.


25 posted on 01/31/2022 6:48:33 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ConservativeMind

“Many patients and U.S. lawmakers have expressed outrage at the rising price of insulin, which type 1 diabetes patients must take their entire lives and which is sometimes required to keep type 2 patients’ disease under control.”

See, even the article here gets it wrong. Megadosing insulin does NOT keep the disease under control, it just keeps one SYMPTOM under control, which is blood sugar. All you’ve done is exchange mega-levels of blood sugar for mega-levels of insulin...and I don’t even think anyone has even bothered to study what that does to people.


26 posted on 01/31/2022 6:53:36 AM PST by BobL (Money is the most important thing in my life.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

If GOVERNMENT put the sugar in the food, they can take it out. You must be a DEMOCRAT.


27 posted on 01/31/2022 6:53:58 AM PST by stars & stripes forever ( Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. ~ Psalm 33:12)
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To: ConservativeMind

The school nurse at the school I worked at told me last year our district saw the highest enrollment of kindergarteners with diabetes than ever before - Kindergarteners!

My father-in-law died of a diabetes-induced heart attack- but he wouldn’t take care of himself, eat right or exercise - and continued to drink alcohol up until the end.

How many of these deaths are from people who wouldn’t follow their doctor’s advice about lifestyle changes?


28 posted on 01/31/2022 6:56:40 AM PST by Bon of Babble (Rigged Elections have Consequences)
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To: C210N

Just a silly question, I know. But haven’t the costs of medications and equipment that diabetics need gone way up recently? Is it possible that patients not being able to afford current treatment might, just might, be a big part of these fatalities?


29 posted on 01/31/2022 7:00:29 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: stars & stripes forever

I am curious. Just how does government put sugar in food?


30 posted on 01/31/2022 7:02:41 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

There’s a new class of meds that works quite well (SGLT2 inhibitors) but is quite expensive.

I take Jardiance and it works great with minimal side effects.

You can accomplish a lot of the same results with the old standard of metformin but you need to REALLY do a serious carb reduction in your diet.


31 posted on 01/31/2022 7:03:58 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ConservativeMind

Lose weight is the best thing to do. I lost a significant amount of weight in 7 months and all my numbers improved drastically.


32 posted on 01/31/2022 7:04:24 AM PST by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues th the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: ConservativeMind

Causation is bilateral. I’m not going to point out the obvious.

If the other parties cannot take responsibility, nothing will change.

I know: My father is one of them.

But even some here would argue that the necessary steps are governmental overreach; I would argue that it’s undoing criminally negligent bureaucratic actions.

@ConservativeMind: In light of your familial experience, you definitely want to keep an eye out for my book.


33 posted on 01/31/2022 7:05:07 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: C210N

😂😂🙃


34 posted on 01/31/2022 7:07:50 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: ConservativeMind

Stories about excess deaths from everything OTHER THAN (so-called) vaccine injury can be expected, hot and heavy, for the forseeable future.

Cant allow the common folk to realize the ACTUAL reason for the mysterious rise in All Cause Mortality, now can we?


35 posted on 01/31/2022 7:08:17 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: stars & stripes forever

“Demand that SUGAR and CORN SYRUP be removed from food. Corporate America is killing generations.”

Take personal responsibility and don’t buy food with added sugar or corn syrup.


36 posted on 01/31/2022 7:08:54 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: ConservativeMind

“The article has all sorts of talk about Big Government “help” and “PC” concerns.” That said, diabetes has really taken off.”

Now, that’s a load of truth! Wait until the Karens blockade the hospitals and forbid anyone with diabetes to enter the hospital. Or, better yet, mandate everyone should have a BMI of no more than 23. After all, everybody knows they are like the unvaxxed and should not be treated in hospitals or walk around freely in a “well run” society.

Oh boy!


37 posted on 01/31/2022 7:10:42 AM PST by icclearly
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To: backwoods-engineer

Eat more carbs.


38 posted on 01/31/2022 7:11:30 AM PST by zek157
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To: randita

I read his book, excellent.

I’ll be honest though, you need to have strong willpower to maintain his diet, especially if you’ve had a “bad” diet for 50 years before.


39 posted on 01/31/2022 7:14:01 AM PST by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: ConservativeMind
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.

Perhaps for some, but not for others. I am 62, 6'2", 215 lb., 36 waist. I exercise at least 30 minutes every day and often 60 to 90 minutes per workout (cardio every day and weights 2x per week). I am not fat. We eat very well (mostly home-cooked meals) because my wife is a Type 1 diabetic. And yet, I must now take meds to keep the blood sugar in check.

40 posted on 01/31/2022 7:16:32 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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