[ad_1]
Britons from FAT will get free Fitbits on the NHS to help them beat diabetes.
Trackers will be distributed among efforts to double the number of overweight adults who have received help with losing weight.
Getty – Contributor
Physicians have been asked to enroll 200,000 a year in the NHS's £ 435 fat-reduction program, which will also offer low-calorie shakes and exercise clbades.
About 5,000 people with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes will receive fat-free liquid diets. In the trials, half of people who consumed shake rather than solid foods were free of the disease one year later.
Brits who have trouble getting to their regular appointments will be given activity tracking tools, such as Fitbits, to help them slim down. This happens while experts say that two of us are too big and that annual diabetes spending exceeds £ 10 billion.
NHS England boss Simon Stevens said doubling the size of the £ 100 million diabetes prevention program would quickly pay for itself through cost savings.
Getty – Contributor
He said, "We are stepping up our concrete actions to help hundreds of thousands of people and help them avoid heart attacks, strokes, cancers and type 2 diabetes related to obesity.
What is good for our waistline is also for our portfolio, given the huge costs that taxpayers have to bear for these largely preventable diseases. "
Getty – Contributor
Tam Fry, from the National Forum on Obesity, praised this initiative. He stated that the need to act on obesity and the diseases that ensue was "indisputable".
British Diabetes Officer Chris Askew is praised for the NHS '"ambition". He also called for better control of food marketing for children.
[ad_2]
Source link
