Man, I don’t know when folks will get the message and really start paying attention to this. I suspect not until the generation this article refers to ends up swamping the health care system as the bills come due for not paying attention to their condition. For those who don’t want to click through on the link, it’s an article covering how 2/3rds of the folks with type 2 diabetes are basically doing little or nothing to manage their condition, which will ultimately lead to serious health complications as they age. I’ve said this before, the end-game for folks with unmanaged diabetes is spectacularly unpleasant – the best you can hope for is a sudden heart attack, but you’re more likely to suffer kidney and liver failures along with possible blindness and limb amputation before you get there. They should do shock therapy for these folks in the way they did for smoking when I was young (this is a healthy lung, this is the lung of a 20 year smoker, and hey, take a look at the guy with the hole in his throat). For what it’s worth, I’m not in that 2/3rds category.