to fight this deadly condition? that s where we re going today. let s get started. health officials say diabetes could become the epidemic of the 21st century. think about that. studies say if we in the united states keep living sedentary lifestyles with poor diets, hardly any exercise, half of all americans will be prediabetic or have diabetes by the year 2020. that s less than ten years from now. look at this map from the cdc. look at the dark blue areas especially in the southeast. the appalachian states and parts of the southwest. those are areas that have the highest number of diabetes cases. we show you this because we want you to look at this map now that shows the highest levels of obesity. they are pretty much the same areas. so what does obesity have to do with diabetes? in order to answer that question, we need to look at what causes the illness in the first place. diabetes is caused when there s too much glucose or sugar in the body. we of course get sugar from