Discover Magazine Asks - Do You Have The Covert Plague?
Discover Magazine’s December issue discuss the “The Covert Plague.” Researchers call it insulin resistance, and it could bring down an entire health system. Yet most people could easily save themselves.
On this planet 194 million people have diabetes, double the number of 25 years ago. In another 25 years the number is expected to double again. But those numbers represent only people who reach such high blood-sugar levels that diagnosis is clear and certain. Recent research suggests that the plague may be many times worse, affecting a much larger group of people who are slowly but surely developing a resistance to insulin in their bodies and who could be categorized as prediabetic. Long before such people are officially diagnosed, their eyesight, their hearts, and other organs come under attack. In this country, there are 41 million known prediabetics and 18 million diabetics, about one in every five Americans. [Discover Magazine Asks - Do You Have The Covert Plague?]
