(01-02-2020 00:42 )GMach1 Wrote:  Not true you can't become one directly after the other-type 1 diabetes you are born with and it can surface in early to later life-type II is to do with poor diet and unealthy lifestyle and is more frequently diagnosed-I had that and I managed to somehow reverse it - took me six years mind you, and I assure you I didn't get type 1 after that.

(01-02-2020 00:28 )southsidestu Wrote:  

(31-01-2020 22:52 )garnye Wrote:  

(31-01-2020 21:45 )southsidestu Wrote:  when the NHS still is being underfunded despite the pledge of £350 million a week

this still irritates me, irritating because at the time it was "pledged" it was pledged by people who were in no position to make that decision. it wasn't a promise, it was a comparison of what was being spent in the eu compared to what theoretically could have been done with it if the uk left the eu. it should have been completely ignored, and was ignored by the smarter folk. the dumb folks are the ones that voted based on that pledge. nothing of the sort was ever going to happen, those who pledged it knew that and preyed on the stupidity of the public to believe it was going to happen. which leads me on to another point which might, and hopefully will, annoy some people - i have a few people in my family who work for the nhs, 2 pharmacists and a GP, and they believe the same as i do that whilst funding the nhs could be better, it isn't actually the problem, it's a symptom of the problem, 2 problems infact. one is overpopulation, and the other which is the bigger issue, is that the majority of people relying on the nhs are people who have done it to themselves through poor decisions. older people and to some extent immigrants are still blamed for problems in the nhs which is ridiculous. the biggest problem is people eating and smoking and drinking and drugging themselves into GP's and A&E and hospitals. If (able bodied) people actually took responsibilty and ate healthily and got some physical activity then the nhs, for the most part, would be left for people that actually need it. this would create a knock on effect of better conditions, more space, more money for research and many other things. i'm tired of the nhs being used as a political pawn when the nhs is actually manageable as it is, at least for now until the population increases beyond a certain point

Our healthcare system would definitely benefit from moving from a treatment based model to a model of prevention. As stated in an earlier post diabetes will, in the coming decades, account for nearly a fifth of the NHS budget, most cases of diabetes are type 2 which tend to (I don't know if exclusive or not) come from lifestyle. As for those who are type 1 many (again I don't know an exact number) become type 1 after originally being type 2.

Treatment models for the NHS are not really Brexit related so I will stop there

(01-02-2020 01:28 )littlebig Wrote:  At last,what a great day

(01-02-2020 11:28 )HannahsPet Wrote:  ^^ The problem is the amount of hidden sugar in stuff im a type 2 diabetic caused by bad diet but the amount of crap that is in normal everyday foods is shocking and you think it will get worse if Boris will sell us out to big american corps and Pharma they have already said that we will have to pay more for Medications under a US trade deal