About Diabesity

• DIABESITY is a combination of the words 'diabetes' and 'obesity'

• DIABESITY refers to Type 2 diabetes caused by obesity

• Obesity is the main cause of type 2 diabetes and type 2 diabetes is obesity-dependent

• Worlwide over one billion adults are overweight and over 300 million of these are obese

• Obesity is also linked to other conditions such as cardiovascular disease and certain cancer

• Diabetes is the fourth main cause of death in most developed countries

• Childhood type 2 diabetes has increased 10 fold between 1982 and 1994

• Type 2 Diabetes alone costs the European Union 15 billion euro every year

• Complications of diabetes include blindness, kidney failure and heart disease