Most people with diabetes need to take oral medication or insulin to control it. Only 15 percent of us don’t take either insulin or oral medication, and its likely that few of this 15 percent have their diabetes under control.
But almost all of those drugs make us gain weight. This weight gain makes it harder to control diabetes. That’s a double bind.
Until a few years ago when metformin became available, every diabetes medication caused us to gain weight. That’s one reason why metformin...
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