.......Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90 to 95 percent of all cases of diabetes, is a growing epidemic .......
The growth is in large part a function of revised diagnosis thresholds. At one time as recent as perhaps 2000 the fating blood sugar level was the threshold. At some time after that the level was reduced to 126.
That is 140 - 126 = 14. 14/140 = 0.10, or 10%. I had a chance to ask a major diabetes researcher on a radio conference call, why the reduction, why 10% not 9 or 12. He told me it was an arbitrary reduction.
There is no spreading epidemic. It’s not a communicable disease. For the most part you can’t be a Type II diabetic unless you have certain genes. If you don’t have those genes you will never become a Type II diabetic.
In matters of health, even regulators bow to the CDC; for instance, the upcoming new ozone standards for EPA air quality requirements are going to be lowered from the current 80PPB. The CDC recommends dropping them to 60PPB while the current Administration wants to go in steps starting with a drop now to 75PPB and a gradual lowering to reach 60PPB.
Each increment has estimated health benefits that promise less sickness and more lives saved as you go down the scale. This makes the argument very emotional and disallows any true evaluation of actual clinical cases having been studied.
When we consider that right after 1970 when the EPA was established under Nixon the original ozone standard was pegged at 300PPB, a figure then considered a point at which no harm to the public ought to be expected one should ask just what harm has now been detected and what benefits have already been realized.
Over the past 30 years the standard has been lowered almost immediately after a majority of states have attained it, verified by testing the air, yet the process goes on unabated and more vocal with each new, harder to reach, standard.
Expect to see the same thing with the coming allowable CO2 levels for which standards will be applied.
Modern science ignores the law of diminishing returns.