Diabetes, diets and sweet nothings from politicians FMTNews
ourselves into the record books. Apparently, we have the highest rate of diabetes in the Western Pacific region. Eat your heart out, Singapore! This honour is all ours.
What about the Malays? We, being mainland South East Asians living right smack between the Chinese and Indian sub-continents, are also blessed, or perhaps cursed, with it.I certainly don’t wish to poke fun at diabetes sufferers.
I should dip these politicians in a vat of molten sugar and dump them on an anthill. They’ll give the ants diabetes for sure, but it’ll be worth it. Perhaps they’ll turn up in Parliament the next day and do something useful. The politicians, I mean, not the ants.Apart from diet, we also suffer from excessive love of the sedentary life. We’re not a nation that hustles itself to raise a sweat.
Can we build that same culture here? Certainly we can. If we really want to, we can easily crush diabetes through better diets and healthier living. With some government support such as incentives and sanctions , we can achieve that within a generation or two.
The burden of caring for them, given that most of the sufferers are the poorer members of our society, is picked up by our public health system. However that puts them under a lot of strain and diverts much resources away from other more critical needs.Every time I enter a restaurant and put a little amount of rice on my plate , I’d also see a literal mound if not a hill of rice on everybody else’s plates.
You are more likely to be obese, too. The World Obesity Federation recently estimated that by 2035 half the world would be obese if no action is taken now.
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