Americans born in the year 2000 will see 33% of them being contracted with diabetes at some point in their lives. This figure is quoted by The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. What this means is that 29 million Americans will have diagnosed diabetes, and 10 million others will have undiagnosed diabetes.

Diabetes can be said to be a lethal disease in the way that it affects millions of people all over the globe. Not only those who are diagnosed with diabetes are affected, some even have their family and friends catching this disease as well. Diabetes is a dead serious disease and can affect a person's eyes, kidneys, feet, and heart. Diabetes directly affects a person's insulin productivity.

In Canada, it is said that approximately $9 billion were lost every year because of Diabetes, which is the 7th leading cause of deaths in this country. Diabetes are also known to be causing blindness among adults.

Even though diabetes surgery looks to be promising, we still need more data on the benefits and risks by performing such an operation on the patient.

Diabetic surgery is surely not a magic pill where you can expect to get rid of the illness overnight, but it is definitely a great alternative nonetheless. For type 1 diabetes, surgery is only done is certain cases. For type 2 diabetes however, surgery can't be done at all.

Surgeons performing operations on obese people with diabetes had noticed in around 98% of cases the patients' diabetes condition spontaneously vanished a few weeks after surgery, which is too soon to be accounted for by their weight loss.

However, even though research has been done to claim that diabetic surgery can cure diabetes, some doctors still feel that resorting to this is the last resort.

Diabetes is a deadly disease and is becoming increasingly threatening. Diabetes must be treated as early as possible, or it will result in devastating health problems. This is because diabetes is known to destroy a person's ability to use food properly. Educating ourselves with the latest news about diabetes is key to us living healthier lives.