[TheConservator]

There will be a cure for type two diabetes in the next 20-30 years.

[apt4truth]

"There will be a cure for type two diabetes in the next 20-30 years."

I'm sure someone said that 20-30 years ago.

[trenton1776]

“There will be a cure for type two diabetes in the next 20-30 years.”

Sounds great. But before we start celebrating, can you name a few diseases that have been cured in the last 20-30 years? Don’t include any prevented by vaccination or cured with antibiotics or thru surgery - these approaches are old and obvious and won’t work on many of our remaining diseases.

Have you noticed that most older medical charities no longer promise cures? They just promise incremental improvements or that they’ll do more research.

If you do a google search you’ll be hard pressed to find any recent cures. There is a list of 12 diseases cured in the 20th century - but these are due to antibiotics and vaccinations. An, oh yes, all of them were cured by 1950.

[Lizavetta]

There already is a cure for type 2.

It's called lose your obesity and EAT RIGHT.

Once you do that, your insulin resistance problem fades away.

But most people would rather do anything - go through traumatic possibly fatal surgery, pay any amount, take any drug - than actually CHANGE their lifestyle.

[Mrs. Don-o]

There is a cure for Type 2 Diabetes right now. I had type 2 Diabetes for 20 years, until May 8, 2008 (the date of my RNY gastric bypass). By my discharge date (2 days later) I have not had Diabetes and --- I know this from repeated blood glucose testing --- I have had no abnormal glucose levels, neither high nor low --- since the date of surgery.

Some 80% of post-gastric-bypass people never have another abnormal glucose reading for the rest of their lives.