Recently promulgated news – the Singapore government announced in October this year that it will restrict the marketing of high-sugar beverages for consumption throughout the country. Two measures will be taken to impose restrictions.
One, mandatory color-coding of the outer packaging of the beverages sold.
Second, the most unhealthy beverages will be banned from advertising in the mass media.
After the implementation of this measure, Singapore will be the first country in the world to ban high sugar advertising. The reason for going to such lengths to control the sale of high-sugar beverages is that –
With nearly 1 in 7 adults in Singapore suffering from diabetes, the prevalence of diabetes is lamentably high.
According to news reports, more than 700 lower limb amputations are performed every year in Singapore due to worsening diabetes, and 40% of patients who have to undergo dialysis due to kidney failure are caused by diabetes.
Moreover, more and more young Singaporeans are suffering from diabetes, which shows signs of an earlier age of the disease. Ultimately, the reason for this is that most people find it difficult to follow a healthy lifestyle.
In order to control diabetes at its source, the Singapore government has decided to start with high sugar drinks.
While Singapore is strictly controlling the development of diabetes, what is the current development of diabetes in China, which is a major diabetic country?
With China’s aging population and changing lifestyles, diabetes has become an epidemic in the country. So far, China has the highest number of people suffering from diabetes in the world.
In the 1980s, the prevalence of diabetes in China was less than 1%.
In 1994, the prevalence of diabetes in China was 2.5%.
In 2001, the prevalence of diabetes in China was 5.5%.
In 2013, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) stated that the prevalence of diabetes among Chinese adults was 11.6%, and that the prediabetes rate was as high as 50.1%.
In 30 years, the prevalence of diabetes among Chinese adults has soared from less than 1% to 11.6%. Increasingly, poor dietary habits are the main culprit.
In the days when there were no high-sugar drinks in the lives of grandparents, and it was a problem to satisfy food and clothing, the word diabetes was a distant thing for the whole nation.
Nowadays, the simple matter of quenching thirst is replaced by a variety of high-sugar beverages. When children go to convenience stores to quench their thirst, they always choose Coke and sports drinks …… The unconcerned high sugar life is one of the reasons for the “epidemic” of diabetes among teenagers.
Without timely intervention, sugar-loving children and pre-diabetics are at high risk of progressing to diabetes in the near future and living in the shadow of diabetes.
Clinical data shows that the number of people suffering from diabetes is not only limited to the middle-aged generation over 40 years old, but also to the younger generation in their 20s. For those who meet the indications for surgery and have diabetes for less than 15 years, surgical treatment of diabetes is recommended.
A large amount of clinical data proves that the current complete remission rate (clinical cure rate) of weight reduction and metabolic surgery for type 2 diabetes reaches more than 80%, and the overall effectiveness reaches more than 95%, which can not only improve blood sugar and metabolic disorders, but also reduce the occurrence of diabetic complications in the long term.
Surgical treatment of type 2 diabetes has actually been developed for seventy years in the world, and it is known as weight reduction metabolic surgery, and the “gold standard procedure” for the treatment of obesity complicated by type 2 diabetes – gastric bypass surgery – has been developed quite maturely. The laparoscopic minimally invasive technique is less risky than the ordinary removal of the gallbladder.