The diabetes rate has doubled in the last 30 years, according to a report in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. A growing consensus within the international nutritional scientific community attributes the drastic rise to an alarming rate of consumption of non-domestic foods and carbonated drinks. Sales of such foodstuffs have soared since the 1960’s as post consumerism has swept society, and it is this phenomenon in particular that has those worried about diabetes pointing fingers to the obvious correlation.