Improve diets, reduce diabetes

It is sad that there is no federal legislative consensus in the current health care reform bill. The attempted bipartisan effort to place a $35 co-pay cap on insulin failed last week.

It is much more disappointing, however, that we citizens tolerate a food supply chain which inflicts monstrous and mind-roasting quantities of sugar and processed foods on the G.I. systems of adults and children. The adults should know better. The children don’t have a choice.

If we could control processed food, sugar and carbohydrate overload in our diets, the need for insulin would diminish exponentially.

As a country, we need to focus on the cause as well as the symptoms.