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Diabetes sufferers are not necessarily to blame
According to recent research about to be published, Type 2 diabetes treatment will use £16.9bn of the NHS budget as the number of diabetics rises from 3.8 million to 6.25 million by 2035. This has fueled scaremongering media reports with talk of “diabetes bankrupting the NHS within a generation”.
By Dr Ben Daniels | Health, Notebook - A selection of Independent views -, Opinion | Friday, 4 May 2012 at 4:00 am
The bitter taste of sugar prohibition
On Thursday, high-profile science journal Nature published a commentary by three academics, which argued that sugar is a toxin and that it should be subject to similar kinds of public-health interventions as alcohol. In other words, sugar should be taxed and restricted just like booze.
By Rob Lyons | Battle of Ideas, Health | Friday, 3 February 2012 at 12:03 am
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