The number of younger people being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight is rising to ‘alarming levels’, a charity has warned. A new report, published this week by Diabetes UK, says the Government faces ‘a generational opportunity’ to tackle the crisis with a range of measures, including addressing the factors causing obesity and health inequalities. The report reveals there was an almost 40% increase in the number of people under the age of 40 living with a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes between 2016-17 and 2022-23. The charity estimates there are now almost 168,000 people under 40 with the condition in the UK, a rise of more than 47,000 since 2016-17, and says the figures should come as a ‘major wake-up call’ to policymakers. Across the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care Board (ICB) area, the number of cases of people under 40 living with type 2 diabetes has risen by 32.8% to 3,805 over the same period. The number of cases of people living with a diagnosis of diabetes in the region has risen by 4.5% to 110,135 since 2022-23. Phaedra Perry, Head of Diabetes UK – South West and South Central, says:
“Diagnoses of type 2 diabetes in people under 40 are rising to alarming levels in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight and across the UK. It’s a damning indictment of the barriers that many of us face to living a healthy life, where good food is affordable, and exercise isn’t a luxury. “There is a generational opportunity to stop this crisis in its tracks and we are calling on all political parties to seize it. We need bold action to reverse the rising trend in type 2 diabetes, overturn our broken food environment and give every child and young person the best possible chance to grow up in good health. “The decisions taken now will not only determine the health of young people today, but also the next generation.”
Type 2 diabetes has historically been associated with older people. But cases among under 40s have been on the rise in recent years and are now increasing at a faster rate than among over 40s. The condition is known to have more severe and acute consequences in people under 40 and, without the right treatment and support, it can lead to serious diabetes complications that include kidney failure and heart disease. Devastatingly, those who develop type 2 diabetes at a younger age are also more likely to die early. For more information about the signs and symptoms of all types of diabetes, and the Know Your Risk tool, visit diabetes.org.uk.
Overweight slobs, claiming to be living ‘in poverty’ yet spending their benefits on take away, as too lazy to cook cheap, healthy meals for themselves and their state funded children.
The more you give them the fatter and lazier they become.
Cut their income to the bone, never had this problem when the alleged poor, REALLY were poor.
Yer, lets starve the poor. You hatful disgusting excuse of a human. Diabetes is caused by a bad diet, a bad diet is cased by low wages and lack a of choice. Have to eat the high sugar high fat food as you can’t afford the healthy food.
Also, most on benefits also are also working! They have to be on benefits to pay their rent, which is often three times that a mortgage would be. As a result they are trapped in private rental properties unable to save for a deposit because the Tories have rigged the game so they can exploit the poor. You are not poor by choice but by birth. You’re living in a dream land if you think all you have to do is work hard.
When your time comes, the lord will be sending you direct to hell.
Forget the persons working who also claim benefits,
but the persons not working who claim benefits
Who eat expensive takeaways, smoke 20+ cigarettes a days at £13.50 a pack
they drive and have mobile phones.
Alright for some.
Surprised you could hit the right keys with those fat, subhuman fingers of yours
McDonalds don’t help, all that fast and junk food.
No one is making them eat until they are fit to burst. These obese overeating fools have the NHS on its knees and working people are being taxed heavily to pay for their medications. Send them all to fat camps.
The government should subside supermarkets to reduse the cost of fruit,vegetables, fish and chicken so everyone can afford to eat healthy, £3.40 tin of tuna and nearly £4,00 for corn beef. instead they always sell two for one on all the wrong food like crisps Biscuits and any other junk food. Familys just can not afford these ridiculous prices and its easier for them to go to places like Mc Donalds, KfC etc Better still if the government subsadised the local farmers and kept cost lower then we would all buy local from our farmers.
Tins of tuna and corned beef are not healthy food. Fresh food does not come in tins! Real food in supermarkets is actually very cheap. You can buy a whole chicken for £3 and make six meals out of it. All you need are some potatoes, carrots, cabbage, onions, flour, some mince, a chicken, oil, milk, oats, and a couple of tomatoes, and by spending about £20, you will have enough to make cheap meals for the entire week. Forget junk food and eat real food. Buy a few seeds and grow your own salad too for a fraction of the retail price.
Piggy piggy piggy piggy
So, diabetes is the latest must-have “condition” for the millenials, along with ADHD, PTSD, hair-trigger stress and trauma tendencies, and perceived intellectual superiority.
Beam me up Scotty!
The good news is that the all these obese kids are unlikely to live beyond 40, so they won’t be a burden on the state for too long.