Alarming UCLA Study on Pre-Diabetes
 

I just heard this on NPR and found the link. EAT like you could end up with diabetes...I do.

https://www.uclahealth.org/news/majo...es-or-diabetes

Thinking about this issue and thinking back to my father's life and his major alcohol and sugarS consumption and white carbs in the form of pasta and breads...Wondering if he really had diabetes and lived close to 96 and never diabetes mentioned.

Mom ate lots of sugarS and white carbs too but never drank alcohol. Never a word of diabetes ever mentioned in their lives. ummmm

There are a number of genetic risk factors for Type 2 diabetes as well as environmental ones (obesity, hypertension, smoking, inadequate exercise, etc).

Maybe your parents were lucky as far as the genetic risk factors are concerned and the environmental ones did not apply to them.

A recent WHO report shows that about 8.5% of the population (about 420 million people) have diabetes. It directly or indirectly prematurely kills about 3.7 million people every year - this is almost certainly mainly a consequence of Type 2 diabetes and worries me a lot.

There is a general account of this here http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35959554 and the (long) WHO report is here as a PDF http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/1...7_eng.pdf?ua=1 .