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Researchers: Diabetes epidemic worsening

CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) --One in three Americans born in the year 2000
will develop adult-onset diabetes, a worsening epidemic that
disproportionately affects women and minorities, federal researchers said
on Tuesday.

Rising rates of diabetes are directly related to the increasing incidence
of obesity among Americans, said researcher K.M. Venkat Narayan of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"The overwhelming reason why diabetes is increasing in the country is
because there's an epidemic of obesity," Narayan said.

"Among Americans, a woman has a slightly higher risk, probably a 39 percent
chance of developing diabetes in her lifetime, and minority groups,
particularly Hispanics, have a one in two chance of developing diabetes,"
he said.

The disease's impact on blood vessels damages the body's organs, can cause
blindness, and often leads to kidney and heart disease -- and shaves
between 10 and 15 years off a victim's life.

Projecting trends based on health data covering 360,000 Americans from 1984
to 2000, the research estimated the number of people with diabetes will
increase to more than 28 million in 50 years from 17 million currently.

The data showed nearly 7 percent of U.S. adults had diabetes in 1999, up
from less than 5 percent a decade earlier.

The risk of diabetes is higher than a woman's risk of breast cancer -- a
one in eight chance -- and roughly the same as the risk of heart disease --
one in two for men, one in three for women.

Narayan, writing in this week's edition of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, said people can lessen their risk appreciably through
regular exercise and a healthy diet.

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Problem is nobody can agree on what is a 'healthy diet.'


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