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By Cathy Wong, About.com Guide to Alternative Medicine since 2000

Natural Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes

Monday March 29, 2004
An estimated 129 million Americans, or 64 percent of the population, are overweight. As obesity reaches epidemic proportions, the rate of type 2 diabetes, which is closely linked to obesity, has skyrocketed.

Type 2 diabetes is a syndrome characterized by high blood sugar resulting from an impaired response to insulin. It is estimated that over 18 million people in the United States have diabetes, and over 90 percent of those have type 2 diabetes. What's even more shocking is that the percentage of adults with diabetes has increased 65 percent from 1990 to 2001. Type 2 diabetes is usually diagnosed in patients over the age of thirty, but it also occurs in children and teens.

Learn natural treatments and home remedies for type 2 diabetes, including herbs, nutrition, chromium, cinnamon, gymnema, bitter melon, and other treatments.

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