Parents of 31,000 Australian kids suffering from Type 2 diabetes should wear the blame for their poor health an international expert says. The president of the International Diabetes Federation
Sir Michael Hirst has told the National Press Club in Canberra Australia as a country should also be ashamed of the plight of these children.
Warning that diabetes has become a "mammoth peace time catastrophe" he said where previously people were losing their limbs to landmines, now they are losing them to diabetes.
It was shameful that 31,000 young Australians had already developed Type 2 diabetes, Sir Michael said.
"That is a function the lifestyle, of the diet, of the lack of exercise and I have to say of parental responsibility as well," he told the Press Club.