Risk of diabetes can be minimized through life style changes; dietry pattern must be without having junk, processed food items, including only whole grains and fresh fruits and vegetables. Active life style with 30 minutes walk in 5 days a week, adequate water intake, and weight control according to BMI.
Each person either he was diabetic or no should take healthy diet and play sport. The most important advice for diabetic is should check frequently the renal function and the eye in addition to check blood sugar because the most common complications of diabetes are nephropathy and retinopathy.
See for example Michael Pollan's extensive work on how they have made foods rich in calories and sugar cheaper and more accessible to the common folk. Without a doubt, diabetes is the plague of current times. It all started with mass production of packaged foods which have very little nutrition. High fructose corn syrup found in many products as a sweetener is one of the culprits.
Some solutions are: educating the public reagrding diabetes, healthy life styles including exercise, moderation in everything they eat, etc. Taxing food items rich in sugar and calories may also be a deterrent although the conservatives will be putting up a fight. It is the governmnet's responsbility to educate people and if some people do not want to learn but just fight, the government is fully entitled to take action such as imposing taxes for the overall good of the society. Nothing wrong with that?
Diabetes is growing as a major health problem of all ages across the world. Type 2 diabetes has attained the status of a global pandemic, spreading from affluent industrialized nations to the emerging economies of Asia, South America, and Africa. Diabetes has become the fifth leading cause of blindness across the globe. Type 2 diabetes can be prevented by avoiding stress in life, by managing body weight, by avoiding smoking, by reducing alcohol intake, by avoiding junk food, by regular exercise, by eating high-fiber diet and by optimizing vitamin D levels. Please take a look at the following RG links for more details.
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Use carbohydrate that’s high in fibre and low in fat should contribute between 40 and 50 per cent of your total daily kilojoule intake. An important part of achieving this target is avoiding the sources of carbohydrates that contain lots of kilojoules, but offer little nutritional value.