Diabetes Type 2 Support Group
Type 2 Diabetes is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough insulin or does not make efficient use of it. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert food into glucose, a sugar that the body uses for energy. Without enough insulin, glucose can accumulate in the blood, and can cause serious health problems such as heart disease and strokes and organ damage...
The way fashions go this could start a trend. Once a few overweight kids start to have it and loose weight everyone will be asking for it
like the young girls having breast implants botox. Nose jobs if its not available on the NHS then it will start to become a common procedure in the private clinics
Not for me unless it was maybe an amputation or life or death decision
young people should have more gastric band surgery to tackle obesity and diabetes
Mon, 11 Oct 2010
A surgeon in Scotland has warned that severely obese youngsters should have access to bariatric surgery and gastric banding to help them with health problems such as diabetes, it has emerged. Duff Bruce, a consultant surgeon in Aberdeen and chairman of the Severe and Complex Obesity Treatment Service (SCOTS), has stated that the lack of resources to fund the surgery in all people with obesity means that resources should be prioritised for those most likely to benefit, including younger obese patients with type 2 diabetes .
Duff has also recommended that doctors have access to specialist dieticians or can refer patients for surgery in order to tackle the crisis surrounding obesity.
Figures have revealed that there are more than 100,000 people in Scotland diagnosed with severe and complex obesity, with some 70 per cent suffering health problems such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease . Research has shown that bariatric surgery can help tackle diabetes in around 84 per cent of cases.
Mr Bruce said "The success of bariatric treatment on severe and complex obese patients with Type 2 diabetes can no longer be overlooked. More needs to be done, urgently, to identify those most in need and provide this life-changing treatment to those who can benefit the most."
Although there are only about 150 operations for gastric banding carried out in Scotland each year, the Scottish government warned that the surgery should only be seen as a last resort and that the focus should be on preventing people becoming obese in the first place.
like the young girls having breast implants botox. Nose jobs if its not available on the NHS then it will start to become a common procedure in the private clinics
Not for me unless it was maybe an amputation or life or death decision
young people should have more gastric band surgery to tackle obesity and diabetes
Mon, 11 Oct 2010
A surgeon in Scotland has warned that severely obese youngsters should have access to bariatric surgery and gastric banding to help them with health problems such as diabetes, it has emerged. Duff Bruce, a consultant surgeon in Aberdeen and chairman of the Severe and Complex Obesity Treatment Service (SCOTS), has stated that the lack of resources to fund the surgery in all people with obesity means that resources should be prioritised for those most likely to benefit, including younger obese patients with type 2 diabetes .
Duff has also recommended that doctors have access to specialist dieticians or can refer patients for surgery in order to tackle the crisis surrounding obesity.
Figures have revealed that there are more than 100,000 people in Scotland diagnosed with severe and complex obesity, with some 70 per cent suffering health problems such as type 2 diabetes and heart disease . Research has shown that bariatric surgery can help tackle diabetes in around 84 per cent of cases.
Mr Bruce said "The success of bariatric treatment on severe and complex obese patients with Type 2 diabetes can no longer be overlooked. More needs to be done, urgently, to identify those most in need and provide this life-changing treatment to those who can benefit the most."
Although there are only about 150 operations for gastric banding carried out in Scotland each year, the Scottish government warned that the surgery should only be seen as a last resort and that the focus should be on preventing people becoming obese in the first place.
I remember my daughter when she was about 8 coming back from a summer with grandma and she was a little pudgy butter ball. All the goodies I assume and good baking!! I had to really work at getting all that weight down and and no pies and cookies every night!! It was very hard to say no to a little one but she did drop the weight.
I know some can't for medical reasons but surgery should be last for a small child. Back to jumping rope and hop scotch and running outside. Computers are to much sitting....for me too!Lol
Then you get a cartain age as you discoverd and realize your heavy and your pretty much stuck as you said.
Your right about kids or young teens having all this plastic surgery now a days. What are parents thinking?? The world is too fast and competeing with looks and it should be worried about what our kids are or arent learning in schools today. Nutrition should be a major concern.
I don't think you should be sorry for anything you wrote!!! Your right!
every family seemed to eat the same food most of it fresh but it had been rationed in England after the war
T he problem if anything was getting enough in my school-days i cannot remember any very overweight people
we were not programmed to snack and eat all the time
I was not until the 70s that the fast food companies and availability of snacks started people off eating all the time
We seem to have gone wrong somewhere
One of the biggest clothes retailers says the size of their sales has gone up 2 sizes in the last 10 years
One thing I don't understand. There's a girl who lives my building and was obese. She joined a gym, went on a diet and lost a tremendous amount of weight. She's now thin. What I don't understand is that she has a daughter about 6 years old who can hardly walk because of all the weight on her. What's wrong with this picture ?
Like a dad who say had a hard time at school with bullies taking
his son to karate classes
But mothers often go without themselves to feed the children so its understandable
I watch people coming in all the time with bags of burgers and fries or pizza a lot!!
You hear all the talk on Tv about our nation being overweight and they are trying to change things but this generation is a fast food loving generation because it's what they learned! Habits are hard to break. I remember my granddaughter knew what fries and chicken nuggets were at 4 and that is all she ate!!! I got her on salads and she loved them and now she is still a salad person at 15 and thin, her mom is heavy now but continues to eat out on the run!!! Goes to a gym and then stops by a take out??? I don't say nothing!!!! Nope I have learned!!!
When I was a kid I remember going out to get food was a treat we had once in a blue moon not every day or every week.
Arline that woman is one of those Do as I say not as I do people!! Your friend too Grannie!!! It is sad because kids are cruel and they suffer with the name calling...We need PE back in all schools every day!!! Lunches monitored all over!!! Will it ever happen really???