quote:

The push to diagnose and treat prediabetes has come at a cost. When told they have the condition, many people face psychological and financial burdens trying to address it. ADA, CDC, and other groups have spent billions of dollars on research, education, and health improvement programs—generally focused on weight loss and exercise—that have generated lackluster results, according to critics. Kahn makes the point with rhetorical bluntness: Spending vast sums of public money on such prevention programs "has nearly the same effect as burning it in a fire … overall, [it's] a terrible waste of money."

To lower blood sugar, ADA has increasingly advocated more aggressive measures, such as prescription drugs—a push that has opened it to charges of conflicts of interest. Science found that the group and its experts who promote aggressive treatment of prediabetes accept large amounts of funding from diabetes drugmakers. So far, no drugs have been approved specifically for prediabetes, meaning that doctors are limited to prescribing diabetes drugs or other medications "off label" to treat the condition. But drug companies are testing dozens of drugs aimed at prediabetes in hopes of tapping a potential worldwide market of hundreds of millions of people.

Given the avalanche of questionable spending and the wave of anxiety it has unleashed, Kahn now says he rues the day he helped promote the term prediabetes, calling it "a big mistake."

quote:

Originally posted by smithnsig:
Prediabetes is the most treatable "disease" there is with diet, because it is caused by diet.

I'm learning about insulin response, resistance, blood sugar etc. The food pyramid needs to be reversed. When that happens, a lot of metabolic diseases will go away.