PatientWell-Being.org – March 22, 2018
Don Speranza is in his late 60s and lives on a farm along the Columbia River in Washington state, where he runs a bed and breakfast with his wife. Last year he received an email from his doctor with some test results. “It was like a gut punch, ” Speranza says.
Based on his weight, which crept up to 210 pounds, and his blood glucose levels, he was diagnosed with prediabetes.
Don’s story, recently shared by Allison Aubrey on NPR, is an all too familiar one with one third of the adults in the United States being obese. A recent study predicted that we will have more of these stories with 57% of today’s American children forecasted to be obese by the time they reach the age of 35.
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