Nearly 100 Million - ONE HUNDRED MILLION - Americans are or are near being diabetic.

The cost of that is staggering. It was just mentioned on MSNBC.

This is due in huge measure to the lack of health care and the lack of incentives toward wellness. Instead, we live from crisis to crisis. Personally and nationally.

once you start to regularly ingest it. And it's hidden in lots of prepared food, including 12-grain bread.

Drinking soda with corn syrup makes me crave soda that is sweetened with real sugar.

Corn syrup sucks.

They have hybridized every type of corn grown to contain much more sugar and much less protein and nutrients. Almost every single commercial use of corn requires corn that is as high in sugar as they can get it. It kills the farm animals they feed it to. I think they said they can only keep animals on feed lots for about 6 months because the same corn that putting bulk on them is also killing them. It makes their meat MUCH less healthy for the humans eating it.

Not to mention that modern corn, as such a high percentage of the human diet, is killing us too, but since we feed on other substances it just takes a little longer.

It's no secret that obesity, diabetes and heart disease of a populace raises in direct proportion to how much modern corn products they consume.

That's a THIRD of our population. What study did they cite?

It just sounds like fear-mongering to me.

failure to exercise.

My eyes and ears while watching MSNBC.

... try The Google. If all you wanna do is act like a jerk, have a great day.

I'd say other stuff, but I have a reputation as a nice person to uphold.

"Will you quote Rush, Hannity, Oliely, etc.?" <----what a dickwad thing to say.

I am adopted and found out my real grandma was.
It is hell when you are sick or when the meds bottom me out below 40.It is terrifying and i do good til I get sick or eat too many carbs

at people on my buddy list.

This sounds like a scare tactic to get people to go to the doctor in order to make some money for the medical industry.

You and the rest of DU want change? Turn those bastards off and stop letting them control you!

Type 1 is caused from a virus and type 2 is hereditary and can be caused by obesity.
A lot of really fat people are not diabetics and I am NOT fat but still have type 2

caused by “choosing poor diets and failure to exercise”. :rofl:

10-15 lb of my ideal (admittedly almost model-slim), eating whole grains rather than refined grains as much as possible, avoiding all trans fats, avoiding all HFCS, trying to walk MORE.

I need to prevent medical problems because I can't afford to get sick (no medical insurance currently, and even WITH insurance, illness can bankrupt a person).

and will be fine

My grandmother was supposedly borderline Type 2 diabetes but all she ever had to do was watch her weight, and died of complications of a fall and chronic lung disease at about 86. Never any heart disease or strokes or diabetes.

ran a full page color ad in the Washington Post claiming their stuff is healthy and natural, just like table sugar.

(Doesn't lead to obesity or diabetes, oh, nossiree)

Methinks they're getting very nervous. A full page color ad in the Post costs a hello of a lot of money.

I'm very aware of it, personally, and find it, as a practical matter, to be pretty much unavoidable. I think that full page ad is, as you say, a sign that the industry is worried. A little more unfavorable research and they're outta business.

Good riddance, I say.

to the next surgeon general's ears

I know someone who is allergic to corn and she has a hell of a time finding processed foods that don't contain HFCS. Funny thing, tho. She's not overweight although she's what they used to call "a healthy eater."

And if those don't have much effect then why don't we bring back cigarette ads and show people guzzling hard liquor?

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You exposure to pesticides occur when your neighbor applies them, they are applied in schools and other public buildings, they are in imported clothing and in our air, food and water.


http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2008/niehs-04.htm

at the grocery store and half the time they contain sugar or high fructose corn syrup. The so-called "whole grain" cereals fed to kids are the same crap with a new twist. People work so many jobs they don't have time to prepare decent meals and rely on fast food to feed the family. As for kids and exercise, most only exercise their fingers playing computer games. One hand for the game, the other hand for the Cheetos.

genetics (minor factor) and living on an unhealthy diet for over 40 years...got it under control now (proper diet, daily exercise, and oral meds)and hope to someday be able to quit the oral meds.

Still...a reliance on processed and fast foods are harsh on the health...

According to the report 24 million Americans already have diabetes, and another 57 million are pre-diabetic. That is about 23% of the US population. The number of reported cases has risen by 3 million over the past 2 years. It won't take long to hit 100 million at that rate. The health care related costs are $175 billion a year.

I have type 2 diabetes, which is under control through medication and diet. My A1C, or 3 month average is at 5.3, which is actually lower than the average non-diabetic. I am one of the lucky ones.

Anyway, here are the links to the MSNBC story:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25350702

Video: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/25353418#25353418