Despite numerous advances in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes over the past five decades, the disease has grown at an alarming rate. One in seven Americans have the disease, up from one in 20 in the 1970’s. Researchers have come to the sad conclusion that there is no drug powerful enough to counter the impact of poverty, pollution, stress, and a broken food system. “Our entire society is perfectly designed to create Type 2 Diabetes,” Dr. Dean Schillinger, a professor of medicine at University of California, San Francisco, told The Wall Street Journal. “We have to disrupt that,” he said. He was part of a team of experts who gave Congress a road map of how to address the growing number of diabetics earlier this year, the first since 1975. Hopefully, Congress will act on the report which was issued in January.
