High Hopes… Dashed!

Over the last number of decades, diabetologists had been highly optimistic that tight control of blood sugar levels would lead to greater success rates… less artery disease… lower death-rates… fewer strokes and heart attacks… less blindness and kidney failure.  Yet these hoped-for outcomes have simply not panned out.

Indeed, the situation has become alarmingly more grim.

Even much of the information and many of the guidelines offered by the major diabetes-specific organizations, such as the American Diabetes Association, have proven unhelpful in regulating glucose levels — a key component in keeping diabetes in check.

And government research funding programs have become so politicized, that the integrity of independent research has largely been destroyed.  Moreover, powerful lobby groups have become so influential, that any government grants actually achieve little in terms of practical value to suffering diabetics.

No wonder so many diabetics are becoming increasingly frustrated and disillusioned!