The numbers shared in the report about the state of obesity in Australia today are alarming:

“Almost three-quarters of Australian men and two-thirds of women living in rural areas may be overweight or obese and at risk of diabetes, arthritis and other chronic diseases, a new study said.”

Unfortunately, the report doesn’t clarify that there are two types of diabetes and the one that people are at risk of due to being overweight is type 2 Diabetes.

As noted in Wikipedia, “despite the similarity in complications, [type 1 and type 2 diabetes] have quite different origins and treatments”. To this day, there is no known way to prevent type 1 diabetes.

More details about the report: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601081&sid=aBxnJmNqco.o&refer=australia

Discussion about the bundling of type 1 and type 2 under the “diabetes” denomination in the media: http://tudiabetes.com/forum/topic/show?id=583967%3ATopic%3A27101