Diabetes outbreak is a term that medical professionals use to explain the harrowing increase of people who develop the disease diabetes mellitus. Normally, the term outbreak is reserved for sicknesses that are uncontrolled, frightening, and affect mass quantities of people such as malaria and tuberculosis. Unfortunately, all of those terms also describe diabetes as well.

According to data from the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, 18.8 million children and adults have been diagnosed with diabetes. In addition, researchers estimate that another 7 million people have the disease,but have not been properly diagnosed. To make matters worse, 79 million more people are pre-diabetic, which means that they have impaired glucose functioning, or uncontrolled blood glucose levels. If they do not modify their lifestyles, they, too, will soon be diabetic.

Each year, 1.9 million more people contribute to the diabetes outbreak. The majority of these people are suffering from Type 2 diabetes, …