What's sad is that most diabetes research money goes to the more common obesity induced Type II diabetes (80% of which is self-inflicted by overeating), and not Type I diabetes which is not the fault of the person afflicted with it.
By your logic we should stop funding HIV/AIDS research as well, spending hundreds of billions of dollars each year taking care of people who didn't use protection, at the expense of people who try to be responsible.
Why? Because the majority of people with Type II Diabetes (not all) could cure themselves just by eating less! Instead they put a burden on our health care system so they can maintain their habit.
A person living with HIV/AIDS doesn't have the ability to cure himself with a no-cost option. There's a huge difference there.
Do you have a reliable source for "majority"?
http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Diabetes-type2/Pages/Causes.asp...
Only one of these is "eats too much".
> age – being over the age of 40 (over 25 for south Asian people)
> genetics – having a close relative with the condition (parent, brother or sister)
> weight – being overweight or obese
> ethnicity – being of south Asian, Chinese, African-Caribbean or black African origin (even if you were born in the UK)
"Exercising regularly and reducing your body weight by about 5% could reduce your risk of getting diabetes by more than 50%."
They list four risk factors, but the BIGGEST risk factor is EATING TOO MUCH.
But having a horrible judgemental attitude while making this simple mistake is sub-optimal.
Obesity is a huge problem socially, financially and systematically (look at the cost of obesity on any social healthcare system. It's staggering). Type II diabetes has a near fool proof known cure: Lose weight.
The challenge is that's hard for a huge swath of people, likely due to many factors, some self inflicted, some societal. But the bottom line is we know how to fix T2D, it's just not available in pill form.
I say this in all honesty. If losing weight cures it I will be so thankful. The strange thing is that I have never been one to eat lots of sweets and I exercise. Many people who weigh much more than me have way better blood sugar. So is it all weight or is there something more? Personally, I wonder about environmental factors. Also now they are finding some medicines are linked to diabetes. Like Seroquel (which I took years ago) and Lipitor.
My wife is a GP and she deals with obesity and T2D all the time. She says 3 things for T2D.
1. Lose weight 2. Reduce your carbs, go low carb as soon as possible. 3. Exercise, preferably with weights and walking/swimming.
She personally has never had a patient that actually did the above and wasn't "cured" from T2D. However, she has had folks who think losing 5 pounds or that low carb means not drinking the 5th coke of the day and don't understand why it doesn't work in 2 weeks. She has found herself to be an educator most of all. People just generally have zero clue on how all these systems work and she has to tell folks things like "yes, rice is in fact a carb. So is an apple and those waffles. Yup, the biscuit as well. Oh, you're drinking fruit juice for breakfast thinking you are being good? That's 45g of sugar right there. That low fat yogurt is in fact awful for you as a T2D".
I don't like to recommend nutrition advise over the internet, but if you haven't looked into ketogenic diet for T2D management, I would give it a look.
I think Obesity Induced diabetes should have a different name, like "Gluttony Glucose Syndrome".