The International Diabetes Federation released statistics today that are truly frightening. Diabetes has now reached epidemic proportions worldwide. There are approximately 366 million people worldwide who suffer from this disease, the federation said. To make their point even more frightening, they said that the result of this diabetes epidemic is that “one person is dying from diabetes every seven seconds.”
Health officials are looking into ways to diminish the diabetic risk. But it’s not easy. The aging population is a big risk factor as is obesity, which has also become an epidemic (at least in America).The public needs to be educated about diabetes. The scientists need to do more research. The governments of the world need to devote more money to this research. There are too many “needs” here to make me comfortable that anything will be done about this diabetes epidemic.
Diabetes can lead to kidney disease, blindness, amputation, and heart disease. If you would like to help the diabetes epidemic, please donate to the American Diabetes Association. Do you know anyone who has diabetes?
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