Diabetes Stats

Diabetes has affected an estimated 23.6 million people in the U.S. alone, and 90 percent of those people have type two diabetes. Right now 12 million men and 11.5 million women have been diagnosed with diabetes.

Unfortunately, it appears that ethnicity does play a role in the incidence of diabetes. 14.9 million Caucasians have been diagnosed with diabetes. That is almost 7 times more than Hispanics (2.5 million) and 5 times more than African Americans (3.7 million)

The reason being that racial groups like Asians Latinos and Africans share what is called the "thrifty gene" left over by their ancestors that helped them through "feast and famine" seasons.:http://nyp.org/health/diabetes-stats.html