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Well, where do we start.....!

We are Anna and Deborah, and we like feet.

Working with patients affected by Diabetes, treating the complications that can occur, is a big part of our job as Podiatrists. (That's professional Foot Fiddlers for the uninitiated!!)

It is a huge problem both locally and worldwide, and can have a massive impact on a person's quality of life. There are more than 100 amputations in the UK every week, due to Diabetes.

Diabetes UK gives the following statisitcs:

"Most health experts agree that the UK is facing a huge increase in the number of people with diabetes. Since 1996 the number of people diagnosed with diabetes has increased from 1.4 million to 2.9 million. By 2025 it is estimated that five million people will have diabetes. Most of these cases will be Type 2 diabetes, because of our ageing population and rapidly rising numbers of overweight and obese people.

The figures are alarming and confirm that diabetes is one of the biggest health challenges facing the UK today. If we are to curb this growing health crisis and see a reduction in the number of people dying from diabetes and its complications, we need to increase awareness of the risks, bring about wholesale changes in lifestyle, improve self-management among people with diabetes and improve access to integrated diabetes care services."

 

So, what can we do to help? Well, we have decided to use our own feet, and to undertake a 10-day sponsored trek through the mountains of Burma to help raise funds for the charity Diabetes UK.

Please sponsor us for as much as you can to contribute to a very worthy cause!

 

Thank you!! :o)

 

 

 

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