THIS IS BAD PEOPLE!!!

Recently I learned some extremely saddening news. Hospitalizations for diabetes in the United States rose 65 percent over a very recent 14 year span. This hispitalization includes young adults, and yound women. The number of 30 to 39 year olds hositaplized for diabetes have more than doubled between 1993 and 2006. Young women in that age range and also those aged 20 to 29 were 1.3 times more likely than men to need hospital care for diabetes.

THIS IS BAD PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Pregnancy often triggers diabetes in women, but their higher hospitalization rate continued even after excluding pregnancy-related hospitalizations. But after 50, men were more likely to be hospitalized.

In the United States, about 18 million people have diagnosed diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association, but millions more are thought to have it without knowing it. The overwhelming majority have type 2 diabetes, in which the body does not make enough insulin or use the hormone properly. Insulin enables the body to utilize glucose, or sugar, as fuel.

Hospital fees for diabetes in 2006 totaled $200.1 billion compared with $62.5 billion in 1993. THAT'S ALOT OF MONEY!!!!

If you're as tired as I am of learniong these horrible facts about diabetes, then do something about it.

EAT HEALTHIER!!!

VERB (it's what YOU DO) (EXCERCISE!!!)

GO SEE A DOCTOR!!!

I've given you three options. Pick one or find another one, but either way diabetes is rising, and only WE can stop it!!