What is the impact of diabetes on the population of low-socio economic people?

Answer 1

Very good question

Sadly those who are on a low income seam to have a higher risk of diabetes. More often that not they are unable to purchase quality foods, such as fruit/vegetables and cereals and meat etc.

As mountain bear said some families can only afford to have one main meal a day. For the rest of the day the food consumed maybe very poor in nutrition, if anything was even eaten.

If someone has diabetes then you have to add in the cost of insulin, blood test strips, and needles etc, makes it difficult for families to meet the family grocery list required each week. If they are lucky enough to have Health Insurance, does not mean that the medical cost will always be met in full. Thus further impacting on the lack of proper nutrition.

Many years ago I skipped many meals, just so that my husband and daughter were fed properly. Hubby had been diagnosed as a diabetic, and I have food allergies, but what the dietitian and diabetic support worker did not know that, while I bought the correct foods, there was never enough money to keep the cupboards etc full until the next shop, even if food was handed out in very small serves.

I even went to a financial adviser to help, but he found it equally difficult to help. We had to have health insurance, and had to make sure hubby had his insulin. In Australia it currently costs approximately $130 for insulin, so health insurance is vital to help off set some of the medical costs.

Thankfully we are a little better off now, but times can be very tough.

Families that are considered to be of low-socio economic status should be supported and encouraged to make better choices, not ridiculed for making poor choices.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Being diabetic has caused me to be part of the population of low socio-economic people. It is a very expensive to maintain a healthy life.

Even with insurance, medication and diabetic supplies are very expensive, plus have you noticed it is more expensive to buy healthy food in at the grocery than junk?

Answer 5

I'm poor and I am a diabetic. You can never reallly understand the severe impact that being poor and having diabetes has. I should eat three meals a day, but can only afford to eat one. I also took six years to get a proper diagnosis, I knew I was diabetic, but doctors didn't believe me and did not understand that when someone eats only one meal a day, the test for diabetes has to be recalibrated to reflect a low caloric intake or the best will not show that they are diabetic until the diabetes has progressed and usually left a lot of damage behind.

Being able to afford quality foods, and I do not eat very many processed foods. I make my own breads, tortillas, I cook most things from scratch. Even at that, I can't afford to eat properly. I can't afford to monitor my glucose three times a day.

Obtaining care of a diabetic specialist who offers innovative care, care that has proven to improve the health of diabetics as well as deply by many years the damaging affects of diabetes.

I have done research though, a lot of it. Even my friends who have income and a aunt who just died, were never told that all diabetics need three times the B-vitamins as normal people. One because the body fails in diabetics to absorb from foods enough B-vitamins. B-vitamins are needed to prevent or at least delay for years the onset of Neuropathy.

Obtaining medical care when needed is often delayed in poor diabetics. Poor people tend to become sicker more often with complications of diabetes due to many factors, including working long hours to get by, so they do not get the needed rest. Inability to afford in many cases the strips and lancets to monitor their glucose levels. Stress which we know affects diabetes, especially when it comes to infections is usually higher among poor individuals then it is about middle to upper class people.

Obtaining and paying for all the medical care a diabetic should be getting is not going to happen if you are poor. Poor diabetics often land in the ER for complications that had they been able to pay for basic medical care, the complication they are now in the ER for wouldn't have occurred.

Answer 6

It devastating!
Simple carbohydrates are a factor in most cases of Type II diabetes. Poor people tend to eat a larger percent of their diet in the form of carbs because they're cheaper.
More than 50% of Hispanics in the US have or will develop diabetes. This is scary.

Answer 7

"I Been Down so long It feels like as much as Me."- Lee Hazelwood "sixteen tons" - Tennessee Ernie Ford BQ top middle type economically me and the missus we make a ton, yet seem to break even and nevertheless supply funds to human beings and the youngsters. in my opinion i'm purely a white trash farm boy ex soldier what made good working on the grounds that 14 and stayed on the job for the final 38 years. The omit's she teaches and is a union negotiator and lobbyist.

Answer 8

the effect would be that the pharmaceutical companies get rich on keeping diabetics, cancer victims, and the seriously ill 'hanging on'. there are cures for cancer, there are cures for diabetes, and many other illnesses. The FDA has made it illegal to proclaim that a fruit or vegetable can cure an illness, securing their precious TRILLION DOLLAR WELLNESS INDUSTRY. i would tell them to shove an organic apple where the sun dont shine but it might do them some good.

Answer 9

I don't know, but here is a link list to diabetes web sites

Diabetes Sites
http://www2.niddk.nih.gov/ (national institute of diabetes and kidney disorders)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/ (National Diabetes Information Clearhouse ..NDIC)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/a-z.asp (a to z list of diabetes topics)
http://ndep.nih.gov/ (National diabetes education program)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/intro/index.htm (introduction to diabetes)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/populations/index.htm (diabetes statistics)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/complications/index.htm (diabetes complications)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/treatments/index.htm (diabetes treatments)
http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/a-z.asp (diabetes a to z topics list)
http://www.cdc.gov/doc.do/id/0900f3ec802723eb (cdc link on diabetes)

Answer 10

Just my opinion but impact is high I believe because their choice of quality food is limited and they eat to much processed foods and low quality foods instead of high quality fresh fruits and vegtables.