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Originally Posted by Damien
Same with the obesity thread yesterday. Alcohol and general diet are such huge issues for our health and consequentially the NHS. I can still never get over the statistic that diabetes, although not all diabetes is obesity-related, costs the NHS 10% of its budget: https://www.nhs.uk/news/diabetes/dia...icted-to-rise/
Crazy. Better diets and ideally a cure for diabetes would give such a massive boost to the NHS finances. |
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The newspaper said that most spending on the condition is due to avoidable complications.
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The study also reported that the cost of treating diabetes complications (including kidney failure, nerve damage, stroke, blindness and amputation) is expected to almost double from £7.7 billion currently to £13.5 billion by 2035/36.
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It's not diabetes itself that is costly, it is that people ignore any potential consequences. It's a bit like smokers with lung cancer or emphysema continuing to smoke, or alcoholics with cirrhosis continuing to drink.
The problem with cures or fixes for certain types of undesirable activity, is that to increase the level of that undesirable activity because you have removed any negative consequences.