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.

News, Civil RIghts, Diabetes, Public HealthKatherine MitchellSeptember 8, 2021Diabetes, healthy food, food access, obesity, Diabetes belt, Stephen Farrow, Dan Hurley, poverty, processed foods, Mississippi Delta