Diabetes Awareness Month

We have an epidemic of diabetes in Manitoba. For six years the present NDP government has done too little about this epidemic. The epidemic continues. Diabetes is costing lots in the quality of people's health, and in the tax dollars spent on health care in Manitoba.

For more information visit the Canadian Diabetes Association's web site at http://www.diabetes.ca , or see the provincial Liberal report on Healthy Kids at http://www.manitobaliberals.ca The Liberal report deals with adult as well as childhood diabetes and emphasizes the need to change fitness and nutrition in childhood because of the large impact of childhood lifestyle choices on lifestyle choices in adults.

The charts above show the increase in diabetes in Manitoba. The incidence chart shows the increase in the number of newly diagnosed diabetics each year. The prevalence chart shows the percentage of Manitoba's population with diabetes increased from 4.7% in 1998 to 5.8% in 2002.