[Drago]

I used 1995-2011 for the 20% pop. increase...according to the CDC new diabetes cases are up 98% over that time, and are currently declining. But I get your point, we may be in worse health in the last 10-20 years of life. It would require more study though....for example, middle age or younger people may have the highest incidence of diabetes. Also, diabetes rates track directly with obesity rates. Fit, lean seniors have other problems.

http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/incidence/fig1.htm

[jdege]

We’re seeing “adult-onset” diabetes show up in kids under the age of ten, which takes a couple of generations of poor dietary choices to make happen.

Look up Pottenger’s cats. Ignore the arguments about whether food should be cooked, or raw, or whatever. The critical point is that nutritional deficiencies are inherited. First generation of cats on a taurine-deficient diet suffered, second suffered more, third was either still-born or died before maturity or was sterile.

That’s exactly what has been going on with us, since the government started trying to convince everyone that a low-fat, high-carb diet, heavy on the processed foods that provide the manufacturers with the highest profits, is healthy.

Why have things gotten better, over the last few years, after so many years of getting worse? I’d say it’s because people are figuring out that the official dietary guidelines are absolute crap.

Try comparing that chart to margarine and butter sales. Margarine sales have been in a nose-dive since 1995, butter sales are at a forty-year high.

More and more people are figuring out these processed, industrial food-like substances are killing them, and that natural animal fats are essential to health.

In other words, things are getting better because more and more people have stopped listening to their doctors and the public health community on issues of nutrition.