The author says "93 percent of Americans are metabolically unhealthy and suffering from some degree of pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes", is hard to fathom. I can't find this factoid anywhere. Never the less it is extremely high according to the CDC and I'd say a true national crisis! I have very few friends with diabetes or pre diabetes (that I know of). If you hang out with healthy people it helps!

Practically everyone I know is "pre-diabetic," including my husband and myself and we "look" pretty healthy from the outside. You'd never know it by looking at us. We live on a farm. I ride horses and am slim and strong at 62-years-old. I don't generally go around telling people what my most recent bloodwork showed though. Talk to them. You'll find out more people are pre-diabetic than you know.