The BBC has been pushing this story hard this morning;
The number of people living with diabetes has soared by nearly 60% in the past decade, Diabetes UK warns. The charity said more than 3.3 million people have some form of the condition, up from 2.1 million in 2005. The inability to control the level of sugar in the blood can lead to blindness and amputations and is a massive drain on NHS resources.
It interested me because I am a type 2 Diabetic. But this interested me too and yet the BBC completely ignores it.
Doughnuts and pizzas on the NHS: £116million of gluten-free junk food was handed out in prescriptions in the past year
The NHS is a sacred BBC cow that must not be criticised and here we have the BBC pushing the “Diabetes epidemic” overwhelming the NHS narrative whilst studiously ignoring NHS culpability
Maybe the BBC could do a fearless investigation into whether diabetes is more prevalent in some ethic groups. And, David, I am not thinking of the Irish !
I meant “ethnic” , of course, or did I ?
And who suffers from vitamin D deficiency – their mode of dress would be interesting .
NIBOR , LOL !
BBC researcher Moll Asses will shortly have the results of her work broadcast on Newsnight. These prove conclusively that brown sugar is inherently healthier than white – figures backed by Diane Abbot who bravely offered to act as a guinea pig throughout the project.
Diabetes is indeed more prevalent in South Asian and Afro-Caribbean populations – up to 10 times more so than European populations – and stems from a genetic disposition. The BBC chooses not to mention this elemental medical fact. Perhaps it thinks people will ask questions like: Is the additional cost of treating it taken into account when the balance sheet of hyper immigration is drawn up? Answer: no, it is not. Nor are the costs of treating genetic birth defects in the Pakistani community (see http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/7957808/700-children-born-with-genetic-disabilities-due-to-cousin-marriages-every-year.html). Regardless of how one considers these issues and the sometimes inconvenient truth, the reality has to be faced if medical services such as the NHS are to be planned and financed.
The BBC never tackle the issue of inbreeding. Maybe because they practise it themselves.
… and who is the CEO of Diabetes UK?
It is Baroness Young, a former Labour party apparachic who gave up the party whip in 2000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Young,_Baroness_Young_of_Old_Scone
(I’m not belittling Diabetes or the impact it has on sufferers, just pointing out one reason why the BBC might be pushing this story so hard)
Barbara Young was vice-Chairman of the bBBC, 1998-2000.
http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/lords/baroness-young-of-old-scone/1755
It is also interesting to observe from their website the Diabetes UK Mission and Priorities…
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/About_us/Who_we_are/
Campaigning comes well ahead of Healthcare, which is in fact right at the bottom of the list
The NHS is perhaps the most inefficient organisation in the UK; a cash cow that is being milked by unscrupulous doctors and consultants.
Perhaps Al Beeb needs to ask the people they interview where the money is going to come from to respond to this epidemic, or alternatively whether the interviewees would prefer that their hard-earned taxes be used to treat the indigenous population rather than on health tourists given that we appear to be in fairly straitened circumstances. I wonder if Al Beeb would consider doing that? (I know the answer really!)
The do-gooders wanting ever more immigrants, legal or otherwise, should also be asked when they say, as they invariably do, ‘but we have lots of space’ whether we have sufficient homes and school and transport resources and if not where would the money come from from that.
In today’s press and on the Beeb website, there is another example of the great NHS GPs dishing out antibiotics to all and sundry for illnesses which it cannot cure eg flu. Not only does this practice cost the tax payer millions it also puts the nations health at risk.
Its probably be expecting too much to ask them engage brain before reaching for the prescription pad.
PG
lots of space
Indeed. However I looked at a world map today and Africa, well Africa looked bigger than the UK, well bigger than Europe, well bigger than most places. Africa, I concluded, has a lot more space than the UK.
Then I remembered. These maps were created by white male people.
The maps were then, by definition, racist, sexist, Islamophobic.
These maps, created by the white devils have projections than enable
a spherical surface to be shown on a flat sheet of paper.
So I consulted my “History of Black Geography”
(Part of the History of Black Accomplishments series).
There it was, Africa is the size of Lundy.
Rutland has three times the area of the Milky Way.
Those white swine cannot be trusted.
Has the definition of Diabetes been modified in the past decade?
I saw this also and what surprised me about the bBC’s coverage is they have already reported on numerous occasions about the ticking time bomb that is Diabetes amongst Asians and blacks. So while we have this from the bBC news article about the rise in D2:
Dr Joan St John, a GP in Brent in north-west London, where diabetes levels are some of the highest in the country, said the condition had become incredibly widespread.
She told the BBC News website: “It’s very noticeable in that not a week goes by that you don’t make a new diagnosis of diabetes, at least one if not two or three; previously that might have been one a month.”
They don’t mention this previous report of their’s:
Brent ‘worst borough for diabetes’
Brent in north-west London has the highest rate of diabetes in England with more than one in 10 people over 16 living with the disease, figures show. London boroughs Newham, Harrow and Redbridge also have among the highest rates in England. A Brent GP said the high rate was partly due to the high level of diagnosis as well as the ethnic mix and other factors….People from the Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities are most at risk of diabetes, said Diabetes UK, with people of Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani origin six times more likely to develop it than white people. The 2011 census showed Brent had the highest proportion of non-UK born residents in London.
That report was in 2013, in 2012 the bBC came out with:
Diabetes warning for people of Asian, African and Caribbean descent
In 2010 they came out with this warning:
Diabetes a ‘South Asian time-bomb’
In 2008 this:
Asian diabetes ‘time-bomb’ feared
In 2007 they reported this:
Diabetes risk in Asians assessed
The bBC knows full well where that increase in Diabetes is coming from (I’ll be honest and say fat fucks and their diet can also be lumped into this) However before somebody says Hang on I’m skinny, the older you get the more at risk you are. (I’m high risk BTW and I’ve just spent 2 hours in the gym and I’ve a glass of red in front of me) The fact remains the Asian population (Read into that how you will) is exploding and they (Including myself) are the ones who are the high risk group,
BTW whilst looking up those links I came across this from diabetes UK:
According to the list of the 10 areas in England with the highest rates of diabetes that we published today, 10.5 per cent of people in Brent have the condition. This is almost double the rate in the City of London (5.5 per cent), which has England’s lowest rate despite being just three miles from Brent.
As well as Brent, the other areas with the highest rates in England are: Newham in London (9.9 per cent); Wolverhampton (9.6 per cent); Harrow in London (9.4 per cent); Sandwell (9.4 per cent); Leicester (9.3 per cent); Walsall (8.8 per cent); Blackburn with Darwen (8.7 per cent); Redbridge in London (8.7 per cent); and Birmingham (8.7 per cent).
While Brent is currently the only area with a rate of over one in 10 people have the condition, six other areas are projected to join it by the end of the decade. Nationally, 7.4 per cent of people aged over 16 are now thought to have diabetes and this is projected to rise to 8.4 per cent by 2020. This rise is expected to comprise mainly of new cases of Type 2 diabetes, where risk factors include being overweight; having a large waist; being over 40 (or over 25 if they are South Asian); or having a close relative with diabetes.
Now what do all those places have in common?
Is it connected to the increases in TB , AIDS, and Rickets ?
The bBC may have inadvertently highlighted a speculative business opportunity;
The single glove and shoe shop?