People Would Rather Pop A Pill Than Exercise To Lower High Blood Pressure
By News Staff | April 8th 2018 09:11 AM | Print | E-mail
When the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention drastically lowered the 'blood sugar' level, the HbA1C test, to 5.7 percent for a potential precursor to disease labeled "prediabetes" the rest of the world jeered. In China, that would mean 500 million people worried they have a disease. In America, it would mean 80 million more potential patients. When it came to data, less than 5 percent of those with that A1C level would ever go on to develop type 2 diabetes...in their entire lives.
Advocates insisted that this would warn people to start exercising, but realists knew the truth. Many were going to demand medicine and when they did not get it, members of Congress were going to be yelling at insurance companies.
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