According to the American Diabetes Association (ADA), in 2012 the number of people in the United States with diabetes will exceed 23.6 million with approximately 1.6 new cases diagnosed each year. This constitutes nearly 8% of the entire U.S. population. Other data sources that include national surveys and insurance claim databases, as well as a proprietary medical database that contains annual claims for 16.3 million people in 2006, the total estimated cost of diabetes in 2012 is $174 billion, including $116 billion in excess medical expenditures and $58 billion in reduced national product

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Take a look at the guy in the photo. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he is overweight. They base this classification on a number called the body mass index, or BMI. Also overweight, according to this CDC endorsed metric, are athletes and movie stars Kobe Bryant, George Clooney, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Will Smith, and Denzel Washington. Tom Cruise scored even worse, being classified as downright obese, as was Arnold Shwarzenegger when he was a w

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