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In the U.S., the incidence of diabetes has increased proportionately with the per capita consumption of sugar.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

There are life-threatening issues related to diabetes.

Rarely, Type 2 diabetes develops without any readily identifiable predisposing factor. But in the great majority of cases, it is brought on by lifestyle activities, including, and clearly most importantly, dietary choices.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.

If you know people with Type 2 diabetes, there's a high likelihood they will have different medication regimes and different lifestyle options. When we label all these various types as the same thing, we treat them the same way, and they should not be treated the same way.

In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.