The facts about diabetes in Australia are alarming. 280 Australians develop diabetes every day.
It is estimated there are up to 500,000 Australians living, undiagnosed, with diabetes. Around 1.7 million are living with the disease.
Every year, diabetes racks up a financial toll of around $14.6 billion.
Of the two types of diabetes, Type 2 is the most prevalent and can come in unexpected sizes, at unexpected ages and with unexpected consequences. Across the country, young, old, thin, obese, male, female, Caucasian, Indigenous, and migrant Australians are crippled by this disease.
It is thought diabetes can be delayed or prevented in 58 percent of Type 2 cases.
But how do we do this? What are the best methods for preventing and treating, even reversing, Type 2 diabetes? Which diets work, which foods raise our blood sugar, and who is most at risk?
Insight investigates the increasing prevalence of Type 2 diabetes and its growing, but largely silent, impact on the Australian population.
