OPINION: Thoughts to ponder on World Diabetes Day
Chuck Malloy
Don’t feel badly if you do not realize that Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day, or that November is National Diabetes Awareness Month. There are no fireworks, parades or party hats to mark the “celebration.” It’s more of a somber time to draw awareness about the crisis of diabetes — an epidemic long before COVID came along.
According to the American Diabetes Association, 37 million people in the United States have diabetes and 96 million people have this ticking timebomb called “prediabetes.” Another 9 million have diabetes, but don’t know about it. In Idaho, more than 120,000 people — or just over 8 percent of the adult population — have been diagnosed with diabetes. Another 427,000 people in the Gem State, or almost 34 percent of the adult population, have prediabetes.
And did you know that one in 10 people worldwide has the disease?
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