New cases of diabetes have risen by 74 % in just six years, increasing at a faster pace than in America as obesity takes its toll, researchers warn.

New cases of diabetes up by three quarters as obesity rises, researchers find
article in the telegraph

Extract:

"In the ten years up until 2005, 42,642 people were diagnosed with either Type 1 diabetes which affects younger people who are a healthy weight, or Type 2 diabetes which normally develops later due to being overweight or obese.

While new cases of Type 1 diabetes have remained constant there has been a 69 per cent increase in Type 2, the researchers from the Spanish Centre for Pharmoepidemiological Research (CIEFE), in Madrid, Spain found.

In 1996, 38 per cent of people newly diagnosed with Type 2 disease were overweight and 46 per cent were obese but in 2005, 32 per cent of people newly diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes were overweight and 56 per cent were obese, respectively.

The researchers writing online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health said the pace of the rise in diabetes cases has quickened in recent years increasing by 74 per cent between 1997 and 2003 alone.

Lead author Ms Elvira Massó González, said: "Our results suggest that, although the incidence of diabetes remains lower in the UK than in the USA or Canada, it appears to be increasing at a faster pace.""

Obesity will continue inexorably to increase unless and until people are told the truth, namely that it is a problem of fluid retention, not a problem of overeating, and that it can be reduced easily on an individual basis by giving up dieting and instead concentrating on avoiding salt and salty food. - It is vital for the general public however, as opposed to the individual patient, that doctors' monumentally high prescribing of drugs be curbed by law, in order to prevent the nation's health from going to Hell in an accelerating handcart!

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