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An Epidemic of Childhood Diabetes

Recently the Boot Camp used Facebook advertising and promptly found ourselves up to our ears in responses. It’s taken our support team weeks to get out from under and continues to be a work in progress. We’ve suspended all Facebook advertising until we’re caught up and are in the process of expanding staff to deal with the influx. We had not anticipated such a vast response, although this should not have been any big surprise. Today, in the Good Ole USA, the Overweight Capital of the World, 51% of the general population is either Pre-Diabetic or Diabetic - 51%! If you break it down a bit further and zero in on people who are chronically 30 lbs. overweight or beyond, that number jumps to 84%. People in that spot may never get a Diabetes diagnosis, BUT Las Vegas says NO. When I was a college boy, Mickey D’s was just starting out and had no imitators. You could buy a hamburger for 13 cents and a cheeseburger for 15 cents and the National Diabetes rate was 11%. F