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Why COVID-19 is killing U.S. diabetes patients at alarming rates

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By Chad Terhune, Deborah J Nelson and Robin Respaut

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dear's diabetes patient's daily morning 45 minutes walking and evening 45 minutes walking and daily home hardworking loved ones to supporting Together cooking help, all family members clothes washing don't washing mechine own hands Washing clothes don't eating packed snacks,high salted foods,high sugar added snacks, oily foods etc, please keeping your health and families health please eating healthy food and enjoy don't mind set have a diabetes all Thing positively any disease out of bodies all loved people's dont bothering i am every day praying to the god without any disease Long life happy live on world and please brother's and sister's every day wear The mask and social distence. PEACE PREVAIL ON THE EARTH

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On the matter of diet among Japanese, and East Asians in general, I do notice that there is a much lower incidence of obesity among East Asians, even those living over here. However, not everything is ideal in the Japanese diet. I remember reading an article about stomach cancer in Scientific American magazine. The two countries with the highest rates of stomach cancer in the world are Japan and Norway, according to the article from about thirty years ago. I have often wondered why. Both countries have a low rate of obesity, but both eat a lot of cured fish.

As for the comment that sugar is sugar, I think that high fructose corn syrup as a sugar substitute is probably a bad idea. The obesity epidemic followed the transition to high fructose corn syrup as a sugar substitute.

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interesting thought...rice is diabetic inducing diet, i wonder why there is too much diabetes and obesity in the west then?

White rice is not good for diabetics. It's not the only thing that is not good for diabetics. There are plenty of other things, which will be more prevalent as a problem in the west, while rice will be more of a problem in the east. But it's not like rice isn't eaten in the west.

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what about the vaping kids?

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I do believe in what you say though. A lot of people could be healthier through less caloric intake purely.

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Yes I was referring specifically to calorie content, in which case the examples you mentioned are equivalent.

But regarding which group is healthier the first group of food you mentioned is of course healthier. Actually we can say the first group is healthy the other is not, by itself.

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i@n

Besides the “it doesn’t matter what we eat” it sounds good.

Surely you don’t believe that 500 calories of chicken, spinach, and whole grains is equivalent to 500 calories of snickers bars. Cmon man!

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Bottom line is we should eat just enough, and exercise for good measure.

It doesn't matter what we eat, if we eat more than we need we become overweight and the risk for diabetes increases.

If course its a lot easier to consume more than we need if our diet consists mainly of food high in carbohydrates esp sugars.

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1glenn, sorry, sugar is sugar and none of it is good for you. Appalling how much sugar is added to nearly all breakfast cereals, even cornflakes. Basically cut them all out and eat unprocessed foods and you not only avoid the added sugar but all the unnecessary chemicals (the food industry claim they are needed to improve shelf life which translates as profit, they are all unnecessary to the human body,)

All “soda” is bad for you, stick to water, tea or not over strong coffee. Alcohol in moderation.

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JeffLee

Oh you found a similarity between the Japanese diet and US diet that allows you to say that?

There is no comparison between the health of your average person here and in the US as a general statement. The American diet and lifestyle is 100% why they die.

Pukey2

Japanese have no idea about health food or health labeling.

Man you guys are something else! Kindly show me the examples from where you come from on how the populace can lead healthy lifestyles through their food choices.

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I was amazed they ate a lot of sugar

Or was it high fructose corn syrup? At any rate, it was also no doubt not ice cream, but a bunch of chemical junk that should not be allowed to have the label "ice cream" on it at all. I had some in my freezer that was old so I left in on the counter to melt so as to wash it down the drain. It didn't melt even after a whole day. I now pay the higher price for real ice cream.

Obesity and diabetes are a corporate concerted effort.

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They should try treating with HCQ, might save some lives.

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When I was in California, I still remember very fat young people ate very big ice cream in bucket at beach. I was amazed they ate a lot of sugar and I thought that so many people would die of diabetes someday.

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interesting thought...rice is diabetic inducing diet, i wonder why there is too much diabetes and obesity in the west then? funny

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It is criminal that insulin is so expensive over here.

Get rid of high fructose corn syrup, and the incidence of obesity will go down.

I don't drink much soda, but the other day I was served a Pepsi, made in Mexico, with sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup, as the sweetener. It tasted the way Pepsi used to taste, back when I was young.....much, much better than the way Pepsi made in the States tastes. So, going back to cane or beet sugar, instead of corn sugar, will improve taste, and is healthier for humans.

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One of the biggest problem I find with food labelling in Japan is that they hardly ever show a full breakdown of the carbohydrates or fat. Saturated fat or transfat? And what fat? Palm fat? How much of the carbs is added sugar? That's never given. It's as if they don't want to frighten Japanese consumers. Cereals are good as long as it's not loaded with sugars, but they mostly are. I eat All-Bran and even that has sugar. Muesli (without added sugar) is great but I have to go to the import shops. And most places either don't have oatmeal or have run out. Cereal aside, everything else in Japan is loaded with sugar. It's an absolute myth the Japanese are healthy. They have scant knowledge of what constitutes healthy food. And shredded cabbage is not going to make up for your lack of fruit and vegetables. Since Japan taxes rice imports at several 100%, I'm stuck with diabetes-inducing Japanese white rice, and I keep that to a strict minimum.

The coronavirus should also be a wake-up call. People should be looking after their bodies and eating in a healthy way.

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Sad to say but for the vast majority, you get the diabete type 2 from your own way of life you decide. Same as wearing a mask about the chance you mitigate the catching factor for covid-19.

It is association of obesity and diabete that makes it high risk since 7,9% of Japanese population has diabete (Idf organization) compare to 10% for USA (2020 CDC estimate) being diabetic whereas 32% of obese (3.6% for Japan).

It is just not financially and medically sustainable against covid-19...

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he was stationed at the entrance, where long lines of gamblers waited, most without masks, 

This is also part of the problem, people's attitude towards mask wearing and other mitigation measures.

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When the dust settles about this pandemic, I predict the final death rates will reflect the general health of the population, especially the elderly population in various countries.

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"Robert Washington, 68, knew his diabetes put him at risk from COVID-19. When his employer, Gila River’s Lone Butte Casino in Chandler, Arizona, reopened in May, he decided to keep working as a security guard so he could afford insulin"

If the U.S. had universal healthcare, as we do in Japan, Robert Washington would not have to work for his insulin and still be alive today.

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 The one single action to improve health in most western countries would be to lose weight. Stop eating garbage 

Thanks for reminding me to cut down on my consumption of tonkatsu, tempura, instant ramen and polished white rice.

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And the biggest cause of diabetes is....?

Its obesity. The one single action to improve health in most western countries would be to lose weight. Stop eating garbage and get off your sofas!

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I have had pre-diabetes several times. Too much cola and American breakfast cereal. The irony is the breakfast cereal I used to eat was supposedly "plain" grain and I would add a supposedly healthy granola mix to it. Nope. Both were loaded with sugar I later realized. I was fine when I gave up the cereal and cut my intake of cola dramatically. But before then I beat pre-diabetes by eating lots of lettuce and getting more exercise. Lettuce and other leafy vegetable containing chromium will increase your insulin effectiveness by 40 percent.

I have also been reading about high fructose corn syrup. This is a factory produced item it must be said. Its not something some farmer can make. Its most unnatural stuff. I read that your body does not even understand the stuff and doesn't produce insulin in response to it like it does with sugar even though you need the insulin to balance it out.

The U.S. government really needs to step up to the plate on diabetes and obesity. But its beholden to big corporations and that is why we are having so many public health crises like diabetes and mass covid 10 death.

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as i have stated before in my other post, this virus is causing an uncontrolled auto-immune response targeting the ace2 (angiotensin converting enzyme) responsible for proper blood pressure management and these receptors are found primarily in the lungs and blood vessels resulting to blood clots and thrombi being lodged into the peripheral blood vessels causing diminished blood circulation and necrosis. A healthy person is generally safe but an uncontrolled diabetic or obese person has one big problem, the body has more than enough supply of blood sugar which increases the ability of the virus to multiply rapidly. To add to the problem are the fat cells where the virus hide and continuously infects the body for a prolonged period of time. Of course it is not a rare phenomenon for virus to hide so it can survive, just look at HIV, herpes, Marburg virus and many more.

So A diabetic person has already compromised blood vessels (fats accumulating on the blood vessel walls because of too much sugar), and with that there is diminished blood flow, increased blood sugar slows down the immune system (yes, the body killer cells are slow and not functioning properly for diabetic persons) and of course heart diseases. Most people with uncontrolled diabetes have high blood pressure and are at risk of congestive heart failure and stroke. The virus multiplies faster with high sugar. and hides in fat cells so the virus life is prolonged and the person infected has no ability to kill the virus because the immune system is compromised.

This is not a puzzle.

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