World Diabetes Day
14
NOVEMBER 2013
We are all aware that diabetes is a menace that is
spreading in our unfit and overeating society.
Well the 14th of November is World Diabetes Day and perhaps a
good time for us all to stop and think about the disease that is becoming an
epidemic in the developed countries of the world. The International Diabetes Federation and the
World Health Organisation, in response to growing concerns about the escalating
health threat that diabetes now poses, created world Diabetes Day in 1991.
World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2007 with the
passage of United Nation Resolution 61/225. The campaign draws attention to
issues of paramount importance to the diabetes world and keeps diabetes firmly
in the public spotlight.
World Diabetes Day is a campaign that features a
new theme chosen by the International Diabetes Federation each year to address
issues facing the global diabetes community. While the themed campaigns last
the whole year, the day itself is celebrated on November 14, to mark the
birthday of Frederick Banting who, along with Charles Best, first conceived the
idea that led to the discovery of insulin in 1922.
We all know that the answer
to the problem is more activity and to lose weight so on this day of the year
maybe it is time that we all, whether we have the disease or not, take stock of
our lives and see how we can either prevent ourselves becoming one of the
statistics or it we have already been diagnosed do everything we can to stop
the condition developing further and giving rise to awful side effects like
losing vision or even amputation.
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Amanda Thomas
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