CBS News, June 24, 2010
The worldwide epidemic of Type 2 diabetes is a “public health humiliation,” the editors of the esteemed medical journal The Lancet argue in this week’s diabetes-themed issue.
The journal’s lead editorial argues that Type 2 diabetes is largely rooted in reversible social and lifestyle factors that a medical approach alone is unlikely to solve.
“The fact that Type 2 diabetes, a largely preventable disorder, has reached epidemic proportion is a public health humiliation,” the editorial says.
The issue includes studies, which will also be presented at this week’s meeting …

Huffington Post, Mark Hyman.
Great background article on diabetes and how lifestyle changes can reverse and prevent this disease.

Diabetes is not reversible and controlling your blood sugar with drugs or insulin will protect you from organ damage and death. That is what the medical profession would have you believe, but medication and insulin can actually increase your risk getting a heart attack or dying. The diabetes epidemic is accelerating along with the obesity epidemic, and what you are not hearing about is another way to treat it.
Type 2 diabetes, or what was once called adult onset diabetes, …

For Asians, it seems, being young and thin isn’t enough to ward off Type II diabetes. Though the disease is typically associated with old age and obesity, a study published May 27 in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that Asia’s growing number of diabetics are relatively young and well under weights traditionally matched with the disease.
Once considered a ‘western’ disease, diabetes has become an increasingly a global problem. The International Diabetes Federation predicts that the number of individuals with the disease will increase from 240 …