The Numbers for Today:
- Fasting Blood Glucose Level: 113. Must have been the dark chocolate last night
- Weight: 189lbs.
- Exercise: 45 minutes on the bike and the hot, sweaty weather is coming back.
- Mood: 7.5.
- Breakfast: Oatmeal with craisins cooked in cinnamon/apple herb tea, fruit medley.
- Lunch: Leftovers sandwich and some Cuties, or Smarties, or whatever those little oranges are.
- Dinner: Split pea sauce over barley, salad.
- Snacks, a little bowl of brown rice
Seems to be theme lately, the costs of treating type two diabetes.
Britain, like America, is getting fatter and getting type two diabetes. Britain, like America, is basically broke. The situation is worse in Britain because the all of the cost are paid for by the National Health Service (NHS). Right now there 3.8 million diabetics in the U.K., and most of them are type two diabetics. About 80% of the National Health Services diabetes budget of £9.8 billion diabetes budget goes to treating the complications of type two diabetes and the problem is only getting worse.
By 2035, according to the journal Diabetic Medicine, diabetes will cost the NHS £16.8bn, 17% of its entire budget. That course is thought to be unsustainable and will bankrupt the NHS system.
Everybody could spare themselves the financial and human expenses of treating the condition by mostly by avoiding it in the first place. The NHS is trying to shift from treatment to prevention. Or is that too much work, the cynic in me asks? Easier to just show up at the NHS clinic, get a pill and let the doctors treat whatever else happens.
The cynic in me also says nothing is really going to happen unless the patients are responsible, with there own money, for their own treatment. Only then will people start to really take care of themselves.
You can read all about the coming "auto wreck" here and here.
Exercise Lessens Diabetes Risk.
Something for the Brits to consider, from Runner's World,exercise lessens the risk diabetes and the more you do, the better.
More for the Cynic in Me
More for the Brits to consider.
A guy named Steve Cooksey was a type two diabetic. He was tired of being sick, changed his diet to the Paleo-diet and seriously worked out. He's no longer a type two diabetic and he shares his success to the world through his Diabetes-Warrior website. He did what the NHS hopes will happen in Britain, people taking the initiative to help themselves.
He is passionate about his healthy life and he shares that passion with anyone who will give him the time of day. His passion rubbed a nutritionist group in North Carolina, where he lives, the wrong way and now the state is threatening him with jail time unless he learns to be quiet.
His approach was not their approach and they did not appreciate his criticisms of them. He hurt their feelings, in other words. Poor babies, they just don't like adults, freeborn citizens, making up their own minds about how to run their lives or what they would like to eat.
Glenn Reynold at Instapundit asked "what the hell is wrong with North Carolina?" Nothing, if you accept that the official Those-Who-Better bunch just wants a docile lot to line up at an Obamacare clinic, get a pill and let the doctors treat whatever else happens. Then worry about the rising costs, just as in Britain. Look where that got them and how much did it cost the government if people followed the Mr. Cooksey? Apart from the legal issues, I mean.
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