. >>> a common diagnosis for people every year, naming people as prediabetic, is unhelpful and un-necessary, they give medicine to people with high levels to avoid type two diabetes, but they say there is no medical benefit, for prediabetics because most will not develop the disease. >>> and proof that dna may play a role in how we pick our social circles. studies show we share genes with strangers similar to fourth cousins, genes affecting sense of smell were said to be similar to friends. >>> alicia vitarelli is live in the newsroom with a preview at 4:00. >> it's a medical mystery affecting some summer swimmers, a lot of people talking about this, hundreds of people got sick after swimming in a lake, and now the cdc is getting involved trying to figure out the source of this problem. plus, we send our teenagers out on the road, because the safest cars are not in our budget. now a set of guidelines, to find the safest used cars for teens. don't forget you can take us on the go, if you have not downloaded our 6 abc news app. see you guys at 4:00. see you then. >>> a pretty nice >>> topping

got 86 million americans are prediabetic. your is sugar level is high, not high enough to be a diabetic. but it's important to look at the symptoms. it's important to know what the symptoms are diabetes are, you have frequent urination, you're frequently thirsty, you have blurred vision, you have a wound and it takes a long time to heal. tingling in the fingers and toes. besides your blood sugar, you should get a hemoglobin a1c. this is a record of what your -- if it's 5.7%, that's normal, if it's over 6.5, that's diabetic and we have to start treating you. >> i want to get back to, why is this happening? i still don't get it. >> i'm going to answer that in a second, but i want to emphasize david's point about the hemoglobin a1c. why is it happening? it's happening because of all of our weight gain. 2/3 of americans are overweight. one-third are obese. the pancreas produces a hormone called insulin, we take in sugar. but the bigger we are, the more insulin we need. and that it's like a motor going faster and faster. you get t

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it is not acceptable that children are being diagnosed as prediabetic and we need to take this step to help address and improve the health of our city. this measure, we're going to hear all sorts of misinformation as we have over the last year from the beverage industry and we just have to make sure that we are telling the truth because when the facts on are your side and you get those facts across you will win. we already have a broad grass roots campaign and we are going to have a healthier city as a result. i want to thank everyone that's helped get us to this point and ask for you support. >> supervisor cohen. >> good afternoon everyone, again, i want to associate myself with many of the comments you heard earlier today about this forward thinking i them ing item that we've heard about today. one thing that's consistent is we have the ability and momentum to bring about change and from my perspective this is a crucial piece of policy because it's really dealing with an issue that has had an adverse affect on the african american, latino and pacific islander community to the point w

it's the 7th leading cause of death in the u.s., and 25% of the country is prediabetic, so obviously there's a huge potential there. up until now, the only way to monitor a blood sugar level in a patient is to prick the finger or wear an insulin pump. and they're very difficult and sometimes painful ways of monitoring one's blood sugar levels, and this is a contact lens that would monitor the glucose in tears. >> so are there any uses beyond helping diabetics monitor their blood sugar? >> yeah, the amazing thing is the hardware itself. google x developed it with an eye toward the monitoring and the contact lens that could change shape dynamically in the eye, so they sandwiches it between pieces of plastic film. a wireless chip, thinner than a human hair, it can power remotely. and the glucose monitoring has a tiny pinprick hole, something that can detect glucose in your tears, and in the future, it could be used to power something like a display, to tell you where you're going in the future. that's the kind of hardware that we're looking at. but for the moment, the potential for diab

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care of the issue of half the country in the next 10 years is going to either have diabetes or prediabetes and it's going to drive up medicaid costs, it's going to drive up medicare costs, it's going to drive up private insurance, one of the issues is how do we get more money into programs that are going to make sure young kids have access to fresh fruit? period. we don't need to get really complicated. we don't need to come up with any new grand scheme, we've got it, it's already in there. and chairman ryan's taking it out. deinvesting in the very things that are going to drive down health care costs, make kids better able to learn and focus and concentrate on the classroom, so they're not having a fruit rollup and thinking it's fruit. they're having fruit and vegetables and access to food over the weekends and all of these things and i find it extremely interesting that a majority of the cuts that mr. ryan proposed to reduce poverty , and in his budget, 2/3 of the savings in the f.y. 2015 republican budget came from programs that is served these populations. including moving millions out