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Posted 11 September 2015 - 05:48 AM

Diabetes Epidemic?

There is clearly a great effort being made in the UK to identify as many people as possible with diabetes, with financial rewards for the diagnosing doctors.

A combination of case-finding and redefinition of diabetes to include a much greater proportion of the population has inevitably led to a sudden and great increase in the number of people with diagnosed diabetes - that is, a pseudo-epidemic.


The lack of benefit of screening has not deterred diabetes evangelism, and indeed population screening continues to expand in a variety of ways.

Professor Edwin Gale of Bristol University has suggested that Type 2 diabetes is a disease in search of a definition. He goes on to suggest that the term Type 2 diabetes is not a specific disease as its influence on different people varies greatly. In some it is associated by a number of serious and more specific disease processes, but in others it appears to do no harm.


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Posted 27 March 2016 - 10:42 AM

Life after the end of the epidemic of  coronary heart disease.

 

During the second half of the 20th century we experienced a very serious epidemic, that of coronary heart disease (CHD). It occurred in the UKin the USA, and in all "western" countries.

 

It became the major cause of death, responsible for the deaths of 25% of the population. It was clearly very serious, but not at the time acknowledged as an epidemic. People, especially men, died prematurely in large numbers before the age of 70 years. The epidemic has now effectively come to an end.

 

The populations of what we call the western world are now free of major diseases. Not only has the epidemic of CHD come to an end, but the risk of an individual developing a stroke has diminished profoundly, and cancer risk has also declined (the larger population means that there are more people with cancer).

There have been no major wars during the past half-century, and consequently there has been a remarkably low number of deaths from warfare. There is no famine: we are all well-fed, arguably too well-fed. We are healthier and many more of us live longer than at any time in history.

 

Unless another epidemic occurs to control the population of the very elderly, it is estimated that the number of centenarians will be 22,000 in 2020, 90,000 by 2034, and 250,000 by 2050.

The socio-economic effects of this are already noticeable and will be increasingly so in the future.

It would appear that throughout human existence famine, war, and pestilence are necessary to control the size of the population. At the present time we have none of them.

 

 

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Posted 27 March 2016 - 11:17 AM


It would appear that throughout human existence famine, war, and pestilence are necessary to control the size of the population. At the present time we have none of them.

 

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On television, there are these channels that feature something called "news."  It's all over the internet also.

 

Sometime, as a lark, you might try tuning into some of that stuff.  If it can't quite clear your head, it might at least clear your sinuses.

 

 

 

 

 


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#14 dougie

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Posted 27 March 2016 - 01:52 PM

this witch hunt for Pre-diabetes, now pre-HTN etc etc is very profitable



#15 Rogerdodger

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Posted 28 March 2016 - 10:10 AM

Type 2 diabetes = Sedentary lifestyle with readily available food supply.

 

Cure: Raising 10 kids, plowing a field, growing a garden, churning butter, chopping firewood, hitching up a wagon, walking to town, playing a fiddle, getting up with the chickens.

It seemed to work for my ancestors.



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Posted 01 April 2016 - 08:43 AM

As I said above:

FAT PLANET: One in eight adults now obese...

641 million...

Most 'super' fat live in USA...

WIRE: The World May Have Too Much Food...



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Posted 20 April 2016 - 04:15 AM

We are living longer but dying more slowly 
 

Morbidity is illness that if it does not cause death but will cause disability. It will reduce our functioning within society or our families.

 

During the second half of the 20th century aging people maintained good function, and death occurred after just a short period of ill-health and functional deterioration, recognised as being the inevitable part of “old age”. 

 

We are now experiencing the “Decompression of Morbidity”. On average we now have an increasing level of chronic illness and disability during several years before death after the age of 90 or 100

 

This is putting tremendous strains on the economy, and the problem is going to be much bigger. Pension funds must support not just 10 years of retirement but perhaps 30 years. This puts a burden on the working population who pay into the pension funds. 

Many of the retired will be unable to survive an independent life, but will require support at home or residential care.

 

 

 

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Posted 23 June 2016 - 01:32 PM

A high cholesterol is a good thing when you are above the age of 60

 

There is no justification in testing the blood cholesterol level in people above the age of 60 years.

 

The benefit of statins is not connected to cholesterol. There is a different beneficial effect, probably an anti-inflammatory action.

 

3700 men would need to faithfully take statins to delay 1 death. The price of delaying one death would then be £675,000, much more in younger age-groups.

 

 

 

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