Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions around the world,¹ with China emerging as the “epicenter” of rising prevalence.

Last year, data² from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed that more than one-third of all Americans³ are prediabetic, yet nine out of 10 of them don’t know they have it.

At that time, more than 29 million Americans were diagnosed with full-blown type 2 diabetes⁴ — a statistic researchers predicted in 2001 wouldn’t be reached until 2050!⁵ All told, one-third of Americans (115 million) were either prediabetic or diabetic.

Now, research^6,7,8,9,10 published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on September 8, 2015, suggests nearly HALF of all American adults had either diabetes or prediabetes in 2011 to 2012.

The situation is similarly dire in the UK, where diabetes rates have soared 60 percent in the last decade, rising from 2.1 million in 2005 to 3.3 million in 2015 — a rise that threatens to bankrupt the British National Health Service (NHS).11

Reported Diabetes Prevalence and the Fight to Expand Medicaid

According to the latest statistics, about 38 percent of US adults have prediabetes which, if left unaddressed, sets you squarely on the path of not just type 2 diabetes but many other chronic diseases as well, including heart disease.

Another 12 to 14 percent have type 2 diabetes, which is associated with a number of health complications, including nerve damage (neuropathy), soft tissue infections, poor wound healing, and limb amputations.