People in the UK under the age of 40 have been warned to watch their weight because type two diabetes is spiraling out of control in younger people.
Researchers at Cardiff University have found that the incidence of Diabetes has trebled between 1991 and 2010, however, alarmingly rose a massive 10 fold in under the ’40s.
Professor Craig Currie told the BBC’s Five live, “Essentially we are a nation of lazy porkers.
As a consequence at a very young age, we are getting a disease that later will lead to a number of severe complications potentially.
You have got to have lived on Mars if you
don’t realize that being fat is going to cause you a few problems.”
The team from the university’s school of medicine said it was the most worrying element of a rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes in the UK population as a whole.
In 1991, there were 169 cases per 100,000 people, rising to 515 in 2010.
Among under-40s, the incidence rose from 15 to 138 cases per 100,000 people.
The study tracked patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes between 1991 and 2010. Patients were then grouped into five-year intervals by year of diagnosis and age at diagnosis to examine trends over time.
Conservative Bracknell MP Dr. Phillip Lee, a practicing GP urged BBC’s Five Live more action to educate people about the health problems associated with the obesity “epidemic” and the dangers of a poor diet.
There is no doubt based on current studies and current data that our modern day western diet is a major contributing factor to the obesity epidemic. There is now no doubt that a return to an as grown, whole food diet, removing all processed foods and processed sugars is one of the most beneficial things that can be done to maintain health.
The study was published in the journal of Diabetes Obesity and Metabolism.
Its editor Prof Richard Donnelly said: “This is an important study which highlights the continued rise of type 2 diabetes as a major public health challenge for the UK.”
There is no doubt that the problem now exists across the whole globe.
To read the abstract of the Cardiff study, follow this link.