Reducing Portions Key to Controlling Diabetes

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After attending a couple of health seminars at work lately, I've been thinking a lot about diabetes.

The number of Americans who have this chronic disease has increased radically in the past couple of decades, and continues to climb. Type 2 diabetes is the more common type and is the sixth- leading cause of death in the United States. Those who have it face long-term complications including nerve damage, blindness, deterioration of the kidneys and heart disease.

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Reducing Portions Key to Controlling Diabetes

Using recent National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 2003-06, researchers estimate that almost 14 percent of men and 12 percent of women ages 30 and older have the disease. In t...

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