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Should I Get a Free Diabetes Screening?

Should I Get a Free Diabetes Screening? (0:34)

Countless people with diabetes don't know they have it, and the earlier diabetes is detected, the better. In this video, Dr. Robin Miller talks about the benefits of free diabetes-screening programs.

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Are the free diabetes screening programs available are helpful for adults? Well definitely. They're extremely helpful, a recent free screening offer that was done in Israel, at an Israeli hospital found that one in four adults tested had either pre-diabetes or diabetes, important thing about this is that they had no idea that they have a problem.

Now what do you think type 2 diabetes is so prevalent? Because we have a real problem with obesity, two thirds of Americans are overweight or obese and that's the reason why have so much diabetes right now, and now it's getting into the children.