Diabetes ABCs 123s

November 14, 2008 By Barbara Quinn

Here is a statistic from the American Diabetes Association that caught my attention: "If current trends continue, one out of three Americans and one in two minorities born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime."



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