Obesity can lead to Diabetes. The spread of these people to curb the disease, has voted the Grand coalition on Friday for the launch of the National Diabetes strategy.
The National Diabetes strategy is decided. In the last meeting before the summer break, the Grand coalition adopted the application "The Start of a National Diabetes strategy – Health promotion and prevention in Germany and the care of Diabetes mellitus in a goal-oriented weiterentwickeln" in the Bundestag in Berlin.
The aim of the strategy is the prevention of obesity and Diabetes advance. In addition to health, the Federal government will be required in the future, areas such as nutrition, sports, education, work, family, and traffic in the fight against Diabetes include. Problematic Obesity, as well as a related need for a healthy diet and adequate exercise, should be better taken into account. To achieve this, you will be prompted the Federal chamber of physicians, for the Expansion of University chairs, and increased account in the new study plans to use. The strategy also stipulates that people with obesity grade 1 to 3, a comprehensive receive at the expense of health treatment of health insurance.
A critique of Diabetes experts from Germany
The German Diabetes society (DDG) welcomes the adoption of the National Diabetes strategy. In a press release, the DDG criticized, however, that important measures are missing from this list, especially the diet relating to: "The food industry needs to be more responsibility, because your products are essential to healthy or unhealthy eating habits bei", DDG-CEO Barbara Bitzer explains. In relation to soft drinks such as the draft call is only the goal of a voluntary sugar reduction of 15 percent by the end of 2025. "This goal is much low and is thus virtually ineffective to verhindern" new cases of Diabetes;, Bitzer says. For years, the DDG point out that there is a mandatory sugar reduction in other countries has already been successfully implemented and the positive effects are scientifically proven. "There are many good approaches in the design that need to be completed in the future, content and best additions to finden", DDG-President, Professor Dr. med sums it up. Monika Kellerer.
Currently, approximately 1,000 people in Germany are diagnosed daily with Diabetes, according to estimates of an increase of now is 7.5 to 12 million people in the year 2040. Diabetes, with its concomitant and secondary diseases, shortened life expectancy, statistically, for at least six years.
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