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Diabetes Treatment
by Dr. Marcus Laux
Published 03/31
Diabetes mellitus comes from the Greek words diabetes and mellitus. Diabetes, which means “siphon,” refers to the excessive urination typical in people with the disease. Mellitus, which means “honey-sweet,” refers to the high sugar content in urine.
There is no pandemic so insidiously deadly as that of diabetes mellitus, specifically type 2 diabetes. What was once a disease that was synonymous with aging, usually in the over-40 population, is now appearing in teenagers in the westernized world and, alarmingly, even in pre-teens in the United States. Today, diabetes is one of the leading killers in the United States and other developed nations.
Around 1900, diabetes was simply a medical curiosity. Few people had the disease, and even fewer doctors had seen it. By the 1930s, the incidence of diabetes had increased tenfold. By the 1950s, it had acquired a number of aliases: adult-onset diabetes, non-insulin dependent diabetes, hyperinsulemia, and insulin-resistant hyperinsulemia. In 1995, 40 percent of American death certificates listed one or more symptoms of this disease. And what a list it is—atherosclerosis, blood vessel disease, liver damage, neuropathy, gangrene and amputation, obesity, impotence, kidney failure, blindness, stroke, and heart attack!
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