I have chosen the diabetes diet because it will help me as a chef to understand my clients varied dietary needs and my family history about diabetic. My uncle has been type 1 diabetes since 1985 and my mother has been type 2 diabetes since 2012. I don 't know exactly the cause of my mother because she always eats various vegetables such as capsicum, carrot, spinach, lettuce, onion, garlic, etc and has exercises every day over about 2 hours. I know the causes of type 2 diabetes which are insufficient exercise and excessive eating meats. She has no reason that she has been diabetes.
Diabetes patients are more increasing than before. But we don 't find right treatment method yet until now.
We only know the Diabetes reasons which are wrong eating habits and insufficient exercise. …show more content…
Estimated diabetes supplied data for 2010 in persons over the age of 15 of different ethnic groups are as follows-South Asians 12.4%, Maori 7.8%, Pacific peoples 11.6%, Caucasians 5.3% and a national average of 6.1%.The people who are too fat commonly leads to diabetes and this growing and serious health problem needs mentioning.
There are so many obese in New Zealand which are 25% of adults. Some ethnic groups tend to be affected more than others (e.g. 42% of Maori and 63.7% of Pacific peoples meet the criteria for obesity).
Childhood obesity is also increasing and current data shows that 8.3% of children in New Zealand are obese and 20.9% meet the criteria for being overweight.
If the present trend is to continue, it is forecasted that the number of people with diabetes will double over the next 20 years. Because of the serious complications of diabetes, it is one of the 13 prompt action priority objectives for population health in the New Zealand Health