Group predicts 522M could have diabetes by 2030

there is a lot of crap in the food here in the US and our government doesnt want to label it. food dyes, genetically modified is NOT the same, fillers and preservatives. drink some water and eat more vegetables and fruit and beans.

As the mother of a child with type 1 diabetes I am SHOCKED at the ignorant comments of some of those posting here. MY child was diagnosed at age 4 with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 Diabetes is an auto-immune disorder. Type 1 DIabetes has NOTHING to do with obesity (he weighed 34 pounds and was almost 4 feet tall), NOTHING to do with "fast food" (we eat at those types of place a couple times a year at most!) and NOTHING to do with diet or exercise! It is caused by a genetic predisposition AND and an as yet unknown environmental factor that may vary from person to person. This is a disease that effects millions who have done NOTHING to cause it. I hope that one day a cre is found so my son, now age 6 can stop taking 4+ injections per day.

I am getting thumbs down for stating the facts. Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease in which a body's own immune system attacks the insulin producing cells in the pancreas. It has nothing to do with exercise or eating McDonalds. Type 1 has been around forever. It has been noted in ancient Egyption manuscripts as well as other ancient civilizations and they certainly didnt eat too much McDonalds. It was pretty much a death sentence until the 1920's when scientists finally figured it out. Please do research before you start spouting off about diabetics being Fat lazy slobs. A baby as young as 6 months can get diabetes.

What a ridiculous article. First of all you cannot discuss Type I and Type II without making the distinction between an autoimmune disease (insulin dependent Type I) and a life style disease (non-insulin dependent Type II). So is this article about rapidly increasing cases of autoimmune diseases or obesity?

I don't know enough about the disease to attribute the increase to anything. I do know there are two different kinds, and I do see people developing type 2 as they age - some of them accept that they will get it because their parents had it - so they do nothing to prevent or handle it and readily accept medication and the problems that come along with it. Others are able through diet to avoid medication and I have even seen a person lose weight and thus be able to stop the medication. It's a vicious circle, though, as people gain weight and then cannot exercise and then have nothing to look forward to but eating and so it goes...

"But it doesn't have to happen if we take the right interventions."

That sounds ominous; just exactly whom does she mean by "we" and what does she mean by "the right interventions"?

Any time I see "could have", "might be" or "predicts", my #$%$ detector goes off.

Obesity and the lack of exercise equal, diabetes.

The majority of diabetes is avoided by diet and exercise. But instead the healthy are labled nuts (heath food nut/ work out nut) and laziness, sloth, and gorging on garbage (I mean come on, what is a pork rind? it's the part of the pig they coundn't make into a sausage for christ's sake) is considered normal acceptable behavior.

Common sense....we are fed crap....your body breakdown and becomes crap!
DETOX, DETOX, DETOX, and fortify with PROPER nutrition and watch what surprises you find!

Proper diet and exercise works wonders.

Genetics for some of those young kids.. it is sad to see a normal kid inherit it from family genes... for all you other pathetic trolls, do your homework...

This is so frustrating. Doctors have it all wrong. You don't get diabetes because you got fat. You get fat because you have diabetes. You don't wake up one day with this problem. It starts when you are a teenager or younger (a healthy skinny one) and just continues to get worse until your body can no longer handle it. Yes diet is a factor but only because you have it and don't know it. There are plenty of people out there who eat crap and never develop diabetes while there are tons who you would never suspect of having type 2 diabetes. I personally think you are born with type 2 diabetes, and your diet determines how fast you start to see the major symptoms. High fasting blood sugar is basically the last symptom you will see and the only one doctors focus on. I wish more doctors would open their eyes and help people.

Cut your Carbs to only 10%.....exercise, lose weight...a lot cheaper than Meds

Wow ! Another stupid medical study to shock people. To bad we don't have more studies. I mean one shocking study a day just isn't enough.

But... but... Moochelle's "Let's End Obesity" campaign is going to eradicate diabetes as a problem, isn't it? Remember kids, glommin down ribs like Joey Chestnut at a hotdog-eating contest isn't the way to go. Do as I say, not as I do.

Read up on McRibs, McNuggets if there's a piece of pork tongue in the McRib they can call it pork, if there is a piece of chicken skin in the nugget it can be called McNugget, just gross

I wonder how many of these "developing countries" have a McDonald's franchise?

I think its obvious why a large percentage of diabetes exists in developing countries. Look at how the American infiltration of junk food has transformed what was probably a much more healthy diet of the native people to American soda, burger, and fries junk food. Sad.

Supersize that soda.