Comments on: Mr Motivator meets Gordon Brown http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/mr-motivator-meets-gordon-brown/ All The Latest TV Gossip, News, Episode Updates and Spoilers From Your Favourite Soaps, Sitcoms and Primetime Shows. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:36:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: kirsty shearer http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/mr-motivator-meets-gordon-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-8841 kirsty shearer Sun, 11 Jan 2009 13:43:07 +0000 http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/?p=8205#comment-8841 My son also has Type1 Diabetes, & is not impressed that the advert tells him his Diabetes was preventable, Type1 is an autoimmune disease that CANNOT be prevented, nor was he impressed that the advert told him he would die young! This advert should have been properly researched before being launched & upsetting both Type1 & Type2 Diabeteics (alot of Type2 Diabetes is genetically linked rather than just from poor lifestyle). Furthermore, a bad lifestyle is only a contributing factor to SOME heart diseases & SOME Cancers. We all agree the advert looks fab, but for my son's sake I wish someone wiyh medical knowledge had checked it before it bombarded our screens. My son also has Type1 Diabetes, & is not impressed that the advert tells him his Diabetes was preventable, Type1 is an autoimmune disease that CANNOT be prevented, nor was he impressed that the advert told him he would die young!
This advert should have been properly researched before being launched & upsetting both Type1 & Type2 Diabeteics (alot of Type2 Diabetes is genetically linked rather than just from poor lifestyle). Furthermore, a bad lifestyle is only a contributing factor to SOME heart diseases & SOME Cancers.
We all agree the advert looks fab, but for my son’s sake I wish someone wiyh medical knowledge had checked it before it bombarded our screens.

]]> By: Becca Gumble http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/mr-motivator-meets-gordon-brown/comment-page-1/#comment-8786 Becca Gumble Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:02:17 +0000 http://primetime.unrealitytv.co.uk/?p=8205#comment-8786 As a parent of a child with type 1 diabetes, i am horrified that the government's new campaign "Change4life" to curb obesity in children does not specify that obesity may trigger type 2 diabetes - it just uses the word diabetes which covers many types of the disease most of then unpreventable. The NHS are running this campaign so why can they not be specific ? As a result of the adverts failure to state that type 2 diabetes may be triggered when referring to obesity related disease it leaves all children with type 1 diabetes and many thousands of other diabetics including adult type 1's open to public ignorance causing them to be the subject of taunts in the playground/ workplace and much further embarrassment. I have tried to explain to my 6 year old that she didn't get type 1 because of poor eating, couch potato lifestyle - as suggested in the advert. I have also had to prepare her for comments from school friends and potential bullying she may suffer because of the ill informed advert which doesn't correctly explain the facts. This advert will undoubtedly cause massive confusion within the community and prejudice towards children and adults with all types of unpreventable diabetes. I do not want my child and others growing up in a misinformed society that she has this life threatening disease because it's her own fault and she could have done something to prevent it. Furthermore, to add references about type 1 diabetes to an advert which is about obesity is extremely misleading and damages the efforts to raise money into the research and treatment and a possible cure for type 1 diabetes. Please see our facebook page that has been set up:"I am OUTRAGED at the Change4life campaign" http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=7218&post=34852&uid=43506195749#/group.php?gid=43506195749 and sign the online petition: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/change4life/. For further information please see JDRF UK website or http://www.childrenwithdiabetesuk.org/ on type 1 diabetes As a parent of a child with type 1 diabetes, i am horrified that the government’s new campaign “Change4life” to curb obesity in children does not specify that obesity may trigger type 2 diabetes – it just uses the word diabetes which covers many types of the disease most of then unpreventable. The NHS are running this campaign so why can they not be specific ?

As a result of the adverts failure to state that type 2 diabetes may be triggered when referring to obesity related disease it leaves all children with type 1 diabetes and many thousands of other diabetics including adult type 1’s open to public ignorance causing them to be the subject of taunts in the playground/ workplace and much further embarrassment.

I have tried to explain to my 6 year old that she didn’t get type 1 because of poor eating, couch potato lifestyle – as suggested in the advert. I have also had to prepare her for comments from school friends and potential bullying she may suffer because of the ill informed advert which doesn’t correctly explain the facts. This advert will undoubtedly cause massive confusion within the community and prejudice towards children and adults with all types of unpreventable diabetes. I do not want my child and others growing up in a misinformed society that she has this life threatening disease because it’s her own fault and she could have done something to prevent it.

Furthermore, to add references about type 1 diabetes to an advert which is about obesity is extremely misleading and damages the efforts to raise money into the research and treatment and a possible cure for type 1 diabetes.

Please see our facebook page that has been set up:”I am OUTRAGED at the Change4life campaign” http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=7218&post=34852&uid=43506195749#/group.php?gid=43506195749

and sign the online petition: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/change4life/.

For further information please see JDRF UK website or http://www.childrenwithdiabetesuk.org/ on type 1 diabetes

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