Every month, I’ll be highlighting Diabetes research that is going on RIGHT NOW! Harvested from different websites, journals and podcasts, I’ll translate them into understandable English and share them with you. Today: What is the FUTURE of Diabetes?
So, the study below estimated in 2020, that by 2025…today… “ The total number of people with diabetes will rise from ∼11 million in 2000 to almost 20 million in 2025. By 2050, this is projected at >29 million people—a 165% increase over the 2000 level. Note that these projections imply a steady increase in the overall prevalence of diabetes, from 3.99% in 2000 to 7.21% in 2050.”
So – what ARE the numbers today? Well, in something I think is WEIRD, but critical, and possibly even criminal:
“By 2045, International Diabetes Foundation projections show that 1 in 8 adults, approximately 783 million, will be living with diabetes, an increase of 46%. Over 90% of people with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which is driven by socio-economic, demographic, environmental, and genetic factors. The key contributors to the rise in type 2 diabetes include: urbanization, ageing population, decreasing levels of physical activity, increasing overweight and obesity prevalence.”
“We CAN reduce the impact of diabetes by taking preventive measures for type 2 diabetes and providing early diagnosis and proper care for all types of diabetes. These measures can help people living with the condition avoid or delay complications.”
This is both immediate and personal – 1 in 8 adults. NEARLY 1 billion OF US or ONE EIGHTH OF THE PLANETARY POPULATION will be dealing with (mostly voluntarily) messed up blood sugars.
Instead of focusing on reducing a PLANETARY EPIDEMIC, we insist on worrying about “tiny bits of plastic”, and CLIMATE CHANGE (of course we won’t talk about diabetes because it can’t be BLAMED for most of US on something so far away as “climate change”, rather on our deliberately and with total abandon ignoring our own behavior – type two diabetes can be FIXED if we stop acting like human swine, eating whatever we want and then clamoring for INJECTABLES or PILLS we can take to FIX IT while we continue to EAT OURSELVES TO DEATH from an ALMOST completely avoidable disease.
“But, it’s just diabetes! My doctor keeps trying to scare me with stuff but I feel perfectly fine! I’m doing good!”
The RESULTS of living without personal control and a dependence of doctors and scientists coming up with pills and shots that absolve us from responsibility is as follows.
PLEASE NOTE I AM SPEAKING TO MYSELF AS WELL! I am NOT better than any of you who have taken this fatalist view of their health. I am TRYING, but not very hard:
High blood sugar
MORE and worse infections
You have to pee a LOT more than everyone else
You have to DRINK a lot more water (which of course makes you pee more)
Diabetic Ketoacidosis (= “If I can’t say it, it doesn’t exist.”) Let’s try and make it understandable:
THE FINAL EFFECT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES IN LITTLE WORDS: “Ketones (say: “key tones”) are made by your wonky body. Your blood starts to turn acidic, kinda like vinegar or orange juice. You get dizzy; you wanna barf, so you do; you have no idea where you are or who you’re giving your cash card to; you get major cramps; your breath smells like you just chugged a half gallon of orange juice; you pass out; and if no one gets you to a hospital, you die.”
THE FINAL EFFECT OF TYPE 2 DIABETES IN SCIENCE WORDS: Ketones are a byproduct of this diabetes process. As they accumulate in the blood, they can make it too acidic. Symptoms of Diabetic Keto-acidosis include: dizziness; nausea and vomiting; confusion; abdominal pain; fruity-smelling breath; a loss of consciousness and possibly a diabetic coma.”
Do we GET THIS? Yes, we will.
Do we UNDERSTAND THIS? I hope so. It seems clearer to me now.
Our Type 2 is NOT going to go away. My Type 2 is NOT going to go away if I just sit on my fat…buttocks…and not do anything about it. Everything up above (in either LITTLE WORDS or SCIENTIFICALLY) is going to happen.
Our Type 2 is NOT going to go away. My Type 2 is NOT going to go away if I just sit on my fat…buttocks…and not do anything about it. Everything up above (in either LITTLE WORDS or SCIENTIFICALLY) is going to happen.
Do you get it?
DO I GET IT???? I’m going to stop hoping someone’s gonna rush right over and gonna save my sorry butt with a pill I can take that will let me keep on living the way I have been for a long, long time.
So. I need to get going. I have kids, grandkids, and friends I'd like to be with as much as possible before I shuffle off this mortal coil.
Links: CURRENT STATISTICS: https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/24/11/1936/24758/Projection-of-Diabetes-Burden-Through-2050Impact ; https://www.ajmc.com/view/diabetes-prevalence-expected-to-double-globally-by-2050
