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Australia’s Silent Assassin is a deadly epidemic – but it’s not the one you think about. It stalks a growing number of us every day, preying on a new potential victim every five minutes. During the 22 months of the coronavirus, around 2,000 people died from COVID-19 in Australia – around 90 deaths per month. But the toll of the pandemic is eclipsed by the number of Australians dying of diabetes. According to the latest data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, diabetes was the underlying cause of 4,700 deaths in 2018 – nearly 400 people per month – and a contributing factor in 12,000 more deaths. Today, nearly 1.4 million Australians live with some form of diabetes, around 500,000 have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, and another 2 million have pre-diabetes. The disease is quietly taking hold in 331 of us every day – that’s one person diagnosed every four and a half minutes. A disease characterized by high blood sugar levels, diabetes is a leading cause of crippling heart attacks, strokes, amputations and blindness and costs Australia at least $ 15 billion per year. But it doesn’t have to be like that. Not only is type 2 diabetes – far more common than type 1 diabetes – largely preventable, but it is also considered by a growing number of experts to be reversible. In a special editorial series launched online and in print on December 1 and running over the next two weeks, the ACM Network – publisher of this credits – will explore the latest evidence on the Australian silent killer and introduce you to the experts exhibiting the bitter truth about our sugar addiction and the food myths that make us fatter and sicker. We’ll also show you how you can get your health back by throwing in ultra-processed foods for a healthy, low-carb approach to nutrition. Elite sports medicine clinician Dr Peter Brukner, author of A Fat Lot of Good and founder of Defeat Diabetes, says Australians need to understand the damage they are doing to themselves. “We must give people living with this chronic disease – and the millions more who are confronted with it – the information they need to take back control of their health,” he said.
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Australia’s Silent Assassin is a deadly epidemic – but it’s not the one you think about.
It stalks a growing number of us every day, preying on a new potential victim every five minutes.
During the 22 months of the coronavirus, around 2,000 people died from COVID-19 in Australia – around 90 deaths per month.
But the toll of the pandemic is eclipsed by the number of Australians dying of diabetes.
According to the latest data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, diabetes was the underlying cause of 4,700 deaths in 2018 – nearly 400 people per month – and a contributing factor in 12,000 more deaths.
Today, nearly 1.4 million Australians live with some form of diabetes, around 500,000 have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes, and another 2 million have pre-diabetes.
A disease characterized by high blood sugar levels, diabetes is a leading cause of crippling heart attacks, strokes, amputations and blindness and costs Australia at least $ 15 billion per year.
Diabetes stalks a growing number of Australians every day, attacking a new potential victim every five minutes.
But it doesn’t have to be like that.
Not only is type 2 diabetes – far more common than type 1 diabetes – largely preventable, but it is also considered by a growing number of experts to be reversible.
In a special editorial series launched online and in print on December 1 and running over the next two weeks, the ACM Network – publisher of this credits – will explore the latest evidence on the Australian silent killer and introduce you to the experts exhibiting the bitter truth about our sugar addiction and the food myths that make us fatter and sicker.
We’ll also show you how you can get your health back by throwing in ultra-processed foods for a healthy, low-carb approach to nutrition.
Dr. Peter Brukner, elite clinician in sports medicine, author of the book Much good and founder of Defeat Diabetes, says Australians need to understand the damage they are doing to themselves.
“We must give people living with this chronic disease – and the millions more who are confronted with it – the information they need to take back control of their health,” he said.
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