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Clearly a lot of focus is on taking care of people with diabetes, with little effort on prevention. Many people feel that health education will not change people's behaviour, so oftentimes people are put on medications. Our ways of living in society have changed over the years and we need to take some bold population steps to reduce the incidence of diabetes.
We are pressed to be targeted to treat rather than provide people access to decreased sugar and allow them to adopt healthy behaviours. For example, we tell people to exercise and they usually don't because we don't have the structures in place. People will make changes if we make the healthy choice the easy choice.
There is a need to continue to adapt evidence-based actions that improve access to and availability of healthy food. We should enhance policies that support healthy eating and healthy food environments and increase access to healthy living and wellness resources and supports to promote food literacy.
Health does not speak languages. It's the same across all communities. Diabetes is an issue that needs to be dealt with.
Thank you.