Join the crowd.
I’m a news junkie, and I recieve CNN news alerts in my inbox each day. This morning, I opened the email to the news article about South Carolina, expecting to see yet another political article about early voting in the state. Instead, the headline was actually extremely relevent to my life: “U.S. Diabetes Rate Nearly Doubles in a Decade.”
I knew diabetes is the fastest growing disease in American right now, but doubled in only ten years? That’s much more than I expected. And that’s also a statistic that I contributed to.
Not surprisingly, the highest levels of growth have been in the South. West Virginia actually has the most new cases. Thirteen people in every 1,000 were diagnosed with diabetes in the last decade. That’s astonishing.
Ironically, this news came out today, on Halloween, which is probably the day when Americans consume more sugar than any other day of the year. Incidentally, today is also the ten-month anniversary of my diagnosis.
Maybe I should buy sugar-free candy and pass it out to trick-or-treaters tonight. Or better yet, I’ll hand out a supply of insulin syringes. That way, when the epidemic continues, and half those children are diagnosed with diabetes, they’ll be ready for it.
lol If you had passed out syringes, I would have swung by and loaded up like a teenage boy passing Planned Parenthood. Excellent stocking stuffers for the family.