Over 100 Million Americans have Diabetes...that is TOO many (when it comes to Type 11)

Over 100 million Americans have diabetes or are at high risk of getting this chronic disease.

One-hundred million. That’s a massive number, representing almost one-third of the American population, and it illustrates just how serious of a problem diabetes has become in the U.S.
Even worse, this trajectory is accelerating! Between 2010 and 2012, 3 million additional Americans developed diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This worrisome rise in diabetes—which can cause serious health complications including heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, blindness, amputation of toes, feet, or legs, and premature death—will overwhelm our medical delivery system in the near future.

It’s our small, daily choices—that sugary iced mocha yesterday, fried chicken and dessert tonight, a donut tomorrow—that created this trend, and we need to reverse course before we’re buried under a mountain of sugar-induced health complications.

To halt this slide down the slippery slope toward diabetes, we need to eliminate these unhealthy choices from our daily routine and establish a new path, one that focuses on a new orientation toward health and individual responsibility.