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Insight: April 4

Insight investigates the increasing prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and its impact on Australians.

Tonight on SBS, Insight investigates the increasing prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and its growing, but largely silent, impact on the Australian population.

The facts about diabetes in Australia are alarming.

280 Australians develop diabetes every day. That’s one new person with diabetes, every five minutes.

It is estimated there are up to 500,000 Australians living, undiagnosed, with diabetes. Around 1.7 million are living with the disease.

Every year, diabetes racks up a financial toll of around $14.6 billion.

Of the two types of diabetes, Type 2 is the most prevalent and can come in unexpected sizes, at unexpected ages and with unexpected consequences. Across the country, young, old, thin, obese, male, female, Caucasian, Indigenous, and migrant Australians are crippled by this disease.

Science journalist Michael Mosley, whose work on health includes numerous investigations into weight loss, and popularising the 5:2 diet, will be joining the show to discuss his shock at being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes and his thoughts on how it can be prevented.

Because that’s the good news: it is thought diabetes can be delayed or prevented in 58 percent of Type 2 cases.

But how do we do this? What are the best methods for preventing and treating, even reversing, Type 2 diabetes? Which diets work, which foods raise our blood sugar, and who is most at risk?

8:30pm Tuesday on SBS.

One Response

  1. This hits home to me, as last July, I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes. That is, I was well on the way to Type 2 Diabetes, and if my eating and drinking behaviour, continued, I’d be stricken. Fortunately, the diagnosis was a big wake up call, and for the rest of the year I went on a hard diet regime, to the point that having lost over 15kg, I’ve pulled myself from immediate danger. My age though indicates that diabetes is a constant threat, and so I have to keep watching what I eat, and ensure that I don’t fall into bad habits again.

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