This is regarding an article from the UK but the problem is exactly the same in North America.
Here is an interesting layout of how bad the prevalence of Diabetes is getting.
This is data collected in the United States from 2005:
Total Prevalence of Diabetes Among People Aged 20 Years or Older, United States, 2005
Age 20 years or older: 20.6 million; 9.6 percent of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Age 60 years or older: 10.3 million; 20.9 percent of all people in this age group have diabetes.
Men: 10.9 million; 10.5 percent of all men aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
Women: 9.7 million; 8.8 percent of all women aged 20 years or older have diabetes.
1.5 million new cases of diabetes were diagnosed in people aged 20 years or older in 2005.
You can see from this data that diabetes is only getting worse. These number are only from people that have been diagnosed, there is still a very large number of people that are undiagnosed.
This article shows information regarding the amount of people that are undiagnosed.
Something has to be done about this ongoing plague, but with the number of people who are getting this disease, doesn't it make you question the susceptibility?
Article:http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i3d16bDXGCxk66QzA-YRH1WFDXyQ
There are many compelling research studies stating that Diabetes is genetic, but with all of the information about how many people have it and how many people are still undiagnosed, sounds like we should be questioning our food supply if you ask me.
I believe it is high and continous levels of stress or our food supply, well I am pretty sure that is how I obtained diabetes.
If they firmly believe that diabetes is obtained through genetics, then where the hell did I get it, because not one person in all of the generations in my family have diabetes.
Food supply or genetics?..... you be the judge.
Monday, February 25, 2008
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