Risk of Diabetes Doubles as Disease Rises Sharply in U.S.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-12/risk-of-diabetes-doubles-as-disease-rises-sharply-in-u-s-.html

Forty percent of Americans born from 2000 to 2011 will develop diabetes, double the risk of those born a decade earlier, signaling a sharp increase in the disease’s prevalence, researchers found.

Doctors are diagnosing more patients who are living longer with their diabetes, according to a study published today in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology. As the number of patients increases, so will the burden on the U.S. health-care system, said Edward Gregg, the study’s lead author and an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“That’s a very real statistic not only for the public but also for the people treating and trying to prevent diabetes,” Gregg said. “I hope this will be a stimulus really to find ways to prevent diabetes in the first place and reduce incidence.”

The risk is even higher for minorities. More than half of all Hispanics and non-Hispanic black women born from 2000 to 2011 will develop diabetes in their lifetime, the study found. For black men, the lifetime risk is 45 percent.

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1. No one could have anticipated that living on a diet of mostly sugar would do this... nt

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2. Not Just Sugar, but High Fructose Corn Syrup

When I was younger, we were only allowed to drink a soda as a treat on weekends. Now, that's all some people drink.