Doctors skeptical of the prediabetes label say that many of the “treatments” patients turn to don’t produce results. Only a fraction succeed in losing significant weight and keeping it off, for example. And to some skeptics, the prevention efforts, which are largely focused on lifestyle changes, contain a cruel subtext: “If you weren’t so fat and lazy, you wouldn’t be in such trouble.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 21, 2019 10:18 UTC