Interesting Long-Term Study

This caught my eye – long-term studies like this are rare because of both the cost and difficulty in tracking people over long periods of time. I’m curious as to whether they actually learn anything new or useful from this, and I did note the comment, “If we are able to pick up early diabetes, changes in diet and lifestyle would certainly help to slow down and may be even prevent future cases.”

Why don’t we just work to make these changes for everybody, everywhere, period? The whole species would be better off and Type 2 would get annihilated in the process…