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Stuart - Interview 12  

Stuart - Interview 12

Age at Interview: 60
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 55
Background: Stuart is a taxi driver and is married with two adult children aged 28 and 30. Ethnic background/Nationality: White British.
Brief outline:Stuart was diagnosed with diabetes five years ago. Currently he controls his diabetes by diet alone and takes no medication.

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Stuart drives a taxi for a living and feels it hasn't helped with his diabetes.

 



Well, taxi driving really isn't, perhaps isn't terribly compatible with somebody that's trying to eat well and sort of exercise. It's a lot of sitting around for a start. And, like I say, I take a good breakfast before I go. And then I'm very careful at lunchtime with what I eat. I usually get a sandwich, and occasionally a packet of crisps. But try not, I've always got some fruit in the car that, that I can sort of snack on if I need to snack. Or I particularly like some small raw carrots and there's usually a pack of those in as well to nibble on. So I'm not eating sort of chocolate bars and things like that in between. But the diet is absolutely okay.

But it's the exercise part that suffers in taxi driving because I can't wander too far from the car, and I can't sort of get out for a walk at a quiet period because I've got to be close to the radio. So it is difficult. So therefore exercise in an evening, going out for a walk is important. Although I don't do that very often. But I do in a morning do sit-ups and I've got some weights at home that I use, just for 20 minutes each morning. So I'll do some sit-ups and some weights just to, you know, try and exercise a little bit. But it's the cardiovascular stuff that I miss out on.
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