Diabetes cases exploding among adolescents across the U.S., risks highest in Deep South

The number of diabetes cases among adolescents has nearly doubled since 2001, according to a new study by the American Medical Society. Those numbers are expected to quadruple by 2050.

Over the past 3 years, diabetes has killed more Americans than all the wars over the past century. Mississippi is ‘ground zero’ in that fight.

Bombs are exploding across the nation, with injuries and casualties reaching the millions, but few recognize the war that is taking place, experts say.

That war is diabetes, and Mississippi is ground zero, the only state in the nation where every county is in what researchers call the diabetes belt.