"World Diabetes Day" enters the 20th year, looks at the National governance key

From 2000 onwards, Canada's "Diabetes team" activity has grown.

In the United States, young people are the focus of the fight against diabetes.

The traditional Japanese diet with light, low salt and little oil has many advantages.

In Germany, overweight and obese people account for half of the total population.

Editor's note: November 14, "World Diabetes Day" has entered its 20th year. This year's theme is "Coping with diabetes, immediate action", and this issue gives us a look at how countries around the world can fight diabetes.

Canada challenges itself

Canada has a special contribution to diabetes treatment because insulin was born here, and its inventor, Banting, won the Nobel Prize for his country. The World Health Organization and the International Diabetes League in honor of the great scientist, the "Global Diabetes Day" on his birthday this day.

The total population of Canada is about 34 million, of whom 9 million have diabetes and early-stage diabetes, a situation that is clearly not something a minority needs to face. As early as 2000, the Canadian Diabetes Society began organizing the "Team Diabetes" campaign to call on the vast majority of diabetics to "challenge themselves". Activities of various forms, such as running, hiking, cycling, aerobic exercise, and so on, the diabetes patients organized to promote health concepts, universal health knowledge, and diabetes care, health activities to recruit volunteers, expand the impact and raise funds.

Unlike China, Canada does not have a "sugar-free food counter" for diabetics, but bread and beverages have sugar-free varieties. Since Canada requires all foods to be labeled with recipes and ingredients, "0 sugars" breads and beverages are easily identifiable and are as ubiquitous as regular breads and beverages, and only pharmacies can find a limited variety of sugar-free candy and sugar. Canada's sugar-control approach, the Diabetes Federation and other institutions in the "Sugar Control Seminar" to provide a special "sugar control diet", the patient according to the recipe intake of the prescribed variety, quantity of food, supplemented by moderate exercise to achieve the effect of sugar control. ▲ (our correspondent reporter in Canada Pottery short room)

German tax urges weight loss

Obese people accounted for 13.7%, overweight accounted for 36.4%, and the two added that half of German adults were overweight and obese, and they were 6 times times more likely to have diabetes than those with normal weight. This is the latest survey of German weight in March and September this year.

In fact, as early as 2007, Germany has become the EU's most obese population of countries. The government spends about 16 billion euros a year on the treatment of obesity, which is not a small number for the ailing economy. To address this dilemma, Vandeviz, a Conservative member of Germany's Sachsen, has suggested that a "fat tax" should be levied on overweight people. Because obesity is caused mainly by unhealthy lifestyles, it brings burdens to the health care system, and it is unfair for the taxpayers to spread the burden evenly. Although Vandeviz's proposals have been fiercely opposed by political opponents, a survey conducted by the University of Jacobs in Bremen shows that the vast majority of Germans have agreed to levy taxes on unhealthy lifestyles. ▲ (our correspondent in Germany, Liu Tao)

The United States mainly to catch young people

The American Diabetes Society (ADA) has been organizing the National Diabetes Month since the early 90, and the focus of activities in recent years has been on teenagers.

The author has just been to Berlin, Washington, last weekend, the community center issued hundreds of "Child Diabetes Self-Management Handbook", also organized a "daily blood glucose measurement", "Bring lunch" and other targeted activities, is said to organize young people to "healthy weight loss competition."

The United States is the focus of diabetes prevention and treatment, because the country's youth obesity rate is increasing. Data show that 1985-2000, the United States 7-18-year-old youth overweight rate increased by more than 28 times times. Obesity is an important cause of early diabetes.

The American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) has said that self-management is the key to controlling diabetes, including diet, exercise, surveillance, drugs, problem solving, health coping and risk reduction in 7 areas. Adolescents lack self-control and need effective guidance in these areas. Aade's National Diabetes Education Program, 50% of the resources allocated to diabetes prevention, 40% is diabetes control, and treatment of health care only accounted for 10% of the resources, thus, prevention and control, especially adolescent diabetes prevention and control, how important for the United States. ▲

(Our correspondent in the United States Tian Yong)

Japan returns to traditional diet

In people's impression, Japan is a country of longevity. However, the prevalence of centenarians in the same time, in the previous years, the incidence of diabetes in Japan has also increased. One of the important reasons is that the European and American "fast food" to the Japanese life infiltration.

In today's Japan, many people choose bread, milk, butter, doughnut and so on for breakfast. Moderate consumption is good for children growing up, but adult eating can easily cause fat accumulation, thus inducing lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, which makes the Japanese government pay huge sums of money for public health care every year. To stop the trend from deteriorating, the Japanese government, in addition to the waist circumference of male staff, has actively advocated people to return to the traditional Japanese diet, and put forward "low salt, low oil" doctrine.

In this context, more and more Japanese began to consciously adjust the diet structure, diet with light Japanese style mainly, eat more fish and vegetables, per capita daily salt intake has been controlled within 6 grams. This makes the number of middle-aged and young people suffering from diabetes plummeted, and less hypertensive patients. In addition, the Japanese will deliberately eat more pumpkin, spinach, wax gourd and other vegetables to prevent diabetes. ▲ (correspondent in Japan Lizhen)