Prevalence of diabetes among New Zealand adults
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International differences in childhood type I diabetes
03 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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Source: OECD Family Database.
Diabetes prevalence by age and country
09 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
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Why are vegetarians special?
27 Mar 2015 6 Comments
in health economics Tags: diabetes, vegetarians
People bow down and genuflect in their presence. I am diabetic, but I still have to explain every time I turn down a cake or something that the sugar rush is a bit too much.
People still think I should eat the cake at the work morning tea despite the fact I tell them every time we have a morning tea that I can’t eat cakes because I’m diabetic. Few, if any, listen to my suggestions of putting on more fruit at work morning teas. An important part of controlling diabetes is maintaining dietary vigilance.
I am not diabetic by choice. Vegetarians are vegetarians by choice. They get far more respect than I do for having to turn away food offered in good cheer.
What annoys me is people apologise to vegetarians when they are offered the meat. People are far less deferential to diabetics were they offer them sweet foods we would love to eat but for a chronic debilitating illness.
Food snobs alert: organic food discriminates against diabetics
27 Aug 2014 Leave a comment
in health economics, liberalism Tags: diabetes, food snobs, killer green technologies, organic cola, organic food
I arrived at an isolated Auckland cafe on Monday, thirsty as can be, and discovered much to my horror that it only sold organic food. This meant no Diet Coke, no Coke Zero, to quench my thirst quickly.
There was was only a light organic cola that was 40% less sugar. For diabetics such as me that is 60% too much sugar.
To add fuel the fire, the common symptom of diabetes, you can be thirsty all the time.
Organic food is not healthy if is unhealthy for people with chronic illnesses to eat or drink it for most basic functions of life such as quenching your thirst.
With diabetes, it is not wise to drink sweet things on a one-off basis such as this because you might remember how nice they are to drinking and lose discipline in your diet.
Out of 4.3 million New Zealanders, about 210, 000 people are affected with diabetes.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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