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What if they gave an epidemic and nobody cared? So far, that seems to be the case with diabetes. A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds diabetes rose a “striking” 6 percent among adults in 1999, atop a 33 percent increase from 1990 to 1998. Driven by pandemic rates of obesity, diabetes now afflicts more than 16 million Americans, and the CDC expects the number to rise sharply. People get in a tizzy about exotic diseases they have almost no chance of contracting.

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