Our family has seen the slow and painful effects of Diabetes for over 30 years, first with my Mom and now Sonia's. It might come as a shock to you and the family when you find out someone has Diabetes but the progression of symptoms and lifestyle choices were building up for years. Sometimes it can be 10 years or more before Diabetes is diagnosed. Dr. Ray Strand covered Diabetes in one of his newsletters titled: Diabetes is a Choice. Here is the beginning of Dr. Strand's Newsletter.
One of the greatest challenges to our health care system is the dramatic rise in the incidence of both obesity and diabetes. In the U.S. and Canada, diabetes has increased more than 500% during just the last generation. More than seventy percent of adults and more than thirty percent of our children are considered to be either overweight or obese. In spite of spending more than 30 billion dollars each year on diets and weight loss programs, the rate of obesity has tripled in this country in the past thirty years. Even more alarming is the fact that the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has projected that one-third of our children born after the year 2000 will become diabetic...read the full newsletter.
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