Is This Guy Lapping You?

In a report issued today, the International Diabetes Federation estimated that 552 million people could have diabetes in two decades' time based on factors like aging and demographic changes. Currently, the advocacy group says that about one adult in 13 has diabetes. They predict that at least one in 10 adults could have diabetes by 2030, according to its latest statistics. The figure includes both types of diabetes as well as cases that are undiagnosed. Without including the impact of increasing obesity, the International Diabetes Federation said its figures were conservative.

Diabetes is incurable, but in many cases preventable. Diabetes maims before it kills.

Most cases of diabetes are Type 2, the kind that mainly hits people in middle age, and is linked to weight gain and a sedentary lifestyle. Gojka Roglic, head of the World Health Organizations diabetes unit, said a substantial number of future diabetes cases were preventable. "It's worrying because these people will have an illness which is serious, debilitating, and shortens their lives," she said. "But it doesn't have to happen if we take the right interventions."

Are you still on the couch and being lapped by this guy?

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