dr. lange chuck a practicing physician in san francisco and i'm the president of the metal society that represents all physician in san francisco we're at 15 hundred strong society and represent the california medical association as well as a delegate but more importantly i'm a san franciscan of chinese decent this is an important issue. let me bin by stating statistics. diabetes is increasing in asians especially in chinese that's unrelated to the there in obvious the total number of people with diabetes in china eclipse that 84 million as opposite side to 24 million in under the circumstances this is 11 percent in china and 8.3 percent in united states. dr. argon talked about this let me talk about this. in a 12-year-old children the risk for developing this in a hundred 50 pound person is the same in a chinese person at one hundred and 25 pounds. we know that added sugar he it's a cause but not the sole cause of obesity and sugar is the cause of metabolic symptom and frustrate to say promotes cellular damage. added sugar is a risk factor that is supportive of other metabolic symptoms. we have t