Diabetes increasing dramatically.

The number of Americans diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, the kind associated with obesity, has topped 19 million, and a study says a third of adults with the disease don't even know they have it. Researchers found that another 26 percent of adults had "impaired fasting glucose," a precursor to diabetes."So, if you add that together with the 9.3 percent of people with diabetes, that means that fully one-third of the adult population--73 million Americans--have diabetes or they may be on their way to getting it," said lead researcher Catherine Cowie, director of the diabetes epidemiology program at the U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Her team's report appears in the June issue of Diabetes Care. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/
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We have a suggestion for curbing your risk for Diabetes and that is eating better, and getting a little exercise. It only takes a leisurely one hour walk per day to stay in shape and stimulate the body to lose weight which decreases your chances of developing diabetes. For most people Diabetes is very preventable just by changing your lifetyle a tad bit.

The cost of Diabetes is expensive, especially for the self employed whose only option for coverage is state sponsored high risk pools. A 38 year old Woman in Illinois will pay approximately $1700 per quater for health insurance for the state sponsored plan compared to approximately $400 for for the same time period for an Illinois health insurance program through a provider such as UniCare, or BCBSIL that a healthy person can qualify for.

The best advice for saving money on health care, and health insurance premiums is to try to lead a healthier lifestyle!