DEATHS SOAR CDC's 2003 report was not complete at this posting. However, ADA has stated that in that year diabetes had risen to the 5th leading cod 1. 8/19/05 Alarming rise in diabetic Death Rates reported by the counters, Center for Disease Control www.cdc.gov 1980 - 1996 Diabetes was the 7th leading cause of death (cod).2 2000-2002 Diabetes was the 6th leading cod 2 2003 Diabetes was the 5th leading cod 1 The synthetic type of insulins combined with medical advice, based on the American Diabetic Association’s (ADA‘s) now status quo Diabetic Complication Control Trial’s (DCCT‘s) guidance has caused the condition of many diabetics to continue to worsen. In 1983 animal insulins began being replaced by synthetic human type insulin (cloned from e-coli or yeast). The last of the animal insulins in the United States was Iletin 1 (85% beef & 15% pork) Since 1998, no form of beef insulin has been manufactured in the United States. Note: Beef Insulin sales began in 1921 and to date has been the only insulin made offering a true 24 hour basal action for most healthy diabetics, with one shot a day. Synthetic Insulin sales began in 1983. The synthetics claim to offer 24 hour action. This is neither accurate nor possible for insulin dependent diabetics (idd). The pump for synthetic users is a poor answer to the synthetics lack of basal (24 hour) activity but some users think it is better than 4 to 8 shots daily. The diabetic cod remained relatively low and stable before the introduction of synthetic insulin to the market place. This left those that couldn’t function properly on the synthetics to suffer and many have already died. The 7th leading COD remained until there was no beef insulin sold in the United States, however, the charts do show a constant increase in deaths as the people were slowly switched to synthetics. Hypoglycemic unawareness (hu) is a major problem caused by synthetic insulin. Hu can be caused by any type of insulin but beef insulin is the most benign. EXPLAINATION: hu simply is when the blood glucose goes too low, and the insulin taker is unaware of the sudden drop in blood glucose. The blood glucose can dip so low that the heart stops pumping thus the person can die or go into a coma that damages the brain causing disability from that attack forward. When one dies from hypoglycemia, their heart stops and the death is usually reported as Heart Failure --- cod unknown. The blood glucose must be tested within a few hours of death to reveal death from hypoglycemia and that is rarely done. Low blood glucose (bg) proof vanishes if the blood test is done too long after death. By 2002 the cod rates increased dramatically from 14.9 before synthetics in 1982 to 25.2 by 2003 as reported by the CDC. This should be alarming everyone. This is more deadly than a war. But there is a solution and it is BEEF INSULIN. The CDC told me they were behind in their counting in 2002. But I could smell the red herring when the stores ran out of Iletin I in 1999. And unfortunately I was right. Alarming! E-mail:  Margie Baker