Few years back, a freelance filmmaker by name Morgan Spurlock shook the whole of America with his film Super Size Me . Mr. Spurlock in this film characterised as a person wholly dependent only on Mc.Donald s food and every time some one offered a super size meal, he would accept the same without hesitation.
In the film he will be subjected to many interviews and one will be able to watch how his body is getting affected. One will be awe struck to see a person who is afflicted with serious disease of diabetes and still taking junk food that are capable of doing severe damage to his health including death.
The sad truth is that he is the not the only person in US who suffer from diabetes. Still there are people who live with diabetes without even knowing that they have contracted the dreaded disease. In a study undertaken, it was estimated almost 18 million people are known to suffer from diabetes and nearly 20 percent of them do not even aware of their disease.
What could be the possible Reasons for American Diabetes
The diet that majority of Americans eat or follow is one that has to be blamed. Although the possibility of acquiring diabetes is through genetic inheritance, the probability of acquiring the disease is always high for people who are over weight.
The unfortunate situation is that today s Americans do not even bother to take cognisance of their weight gain and do not even think of exercising to keep their body weight under control. They are more inclined towards sedentary lifestyle which when coupled with more eating results in formation diabetes.
Detrimental results of American Diabetes
The American diabetes has cost a whopping sum of $132 billion to the US economy in the year 2002, out of which, $91.8 billion constitute towards direct medical expenditures, $23.2 billion towards diabetes care, $24.6 billion towards treatment of diabetes related complications and $44.1 billion towards managing diabetes related medical conditions of the patients.
An approximate of $50 billion expenditure was spent towards medical expenses for the people who are in the age group of 65 years and more.
American diabetes is acquiring a huge proportion and is becoming a great problem in US today. American diabetes is one of the six major diseases that US is most concerned about and has resulted in many deaths during the year 2002 and continue to bother the entire American Health system even today.
In an event of finding a viable cure for diabetes, the American economy can save a whopping sum of $6 trillion in the next 30 years.
However, few alternative treatment or methods can assist in controlling the effects of diabetes. For example, a little effort to educate the patients to take up regular exercise and have a control over their diet can go a long way in coping with the effects of diabetes and in turn help the government to reduce the expenditure.
The recent movement that is taking momentum is aiming at educating the Americans in having a better eating habits so as to make this deadly disease not to debilitate the American population.
[tags]Diabetes, Exercise, Weight gain[/tags]