In the UK, the NHS hands out pills. The solution is quite simple. Lose weight, stop junk food. Better yet, tax obesity, file your tax return and get weighed. Imagine what that would do for some Presidents! But that is another tale.
In the US, according to the NY Times, we send them to a class. We seem to have classes for everything; Diversity, Harassment, Quality, Ethics, etc. The Trainers get billions and we are then left with sick fat folks spending billions on Big Pharma pills.
As the Times notes:
There are about 1.5 million Americans newly diagnosed with Type 2
diabetes each year, a disease typically associated with excess weight
and a sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes self-management programs teach
patients how to monitor their blood sugars, what to eat and the
importance of exercise as strategies to delay or avoid the disease’s
serious complications....Diabetes
is among the costliest of medical conditions. The American Diabetes
Association estimates that average medical expenditures for those with
diabetes diagnoses are 2.3 times higher than those without...One of the most expensive — a 7½-hour diabetes self-management group
course that included two-hour individual sessions with a dietitian and a
diabetes educator — cost $1,700 in Washington state....
You do not need a course. You need a physician to call it for what it is, not a disease, but the patient's problem, they eat too much! Perhaps we should start weighing and taxing based on BMI.
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