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>> there is a chance that now your pancreas is not producing enough insulin, you're going almost from type 2 to type i. that's when the oral medication doesn't work, you have to start giving insulin. >> can you get diabetes from drinking too many sodas? >> you're prone to it. type 2 is genetic. if you want to ward off diabetes, exercise, have fiber not soda pop, not cookies, not cakes, lose weight. if you do that, you'll be on the right diet. to your other question, sometimes you can get type 2 diabetes even if you're not overweight. that runs in families. >> type i is worse of the two. how do...

That would be eligible to receive statin drugs. we would estimate from 34 million previously to as many as 72 million now. >> what are the new guidelines. if you have heart disease, you get a statin. if you have diabetes, type one or type two, you get a statin as well. other two, if you have genetically high cholesterol and your bad cholesterol is over 190, you're likely to get a prescription. and if you're between 40 and 75 and your ten-year risk of heart disease is over 7.5%, you'll get one too. now, although statins have pretty significant side effects including mufg pain, weakness, sorenes...

These medications or not, if you have diabetes, type one or type two, you'd be a candidate for statins. if you have any evidence of heart disease right now, you'd be a candidate for statins. so it's really quite stunning, actually, in terms of how many people would now be possibly getting a statin prescription or recommendation from their doctor. let me just say, we have pretty good strategies of preventing a lot of these problems in the first lace with some basic things. just the better diets, exercise, all the things i've talked about for years. the fact that we're going in the opposite dire...

And get the help they need or do they pass away because of preventible deaths? and the basics really, really do apply here. >> it's desperately urgent to get these supplies in there. let's turn to this development on the use of statins in america. tell me exactly what has happened, how it will change things for americans. >> basically, the guidelines have been loosened for who can get these statin drugs. they are cholesterol lowering drugs. and it's quite remarkable. we talk about the fact that roughly around 30, 35 million people are on these medications right now. and with this loosening of ...

They have gotten names like spice and mr. smiley and k-2 and blaze, as you mentioned. this is fake pot. not talking about real marijuana. this is fake pot. today, as you mentioned, the government is moving to ban their use to drug enforcement agency, declaring it is labeling three forms of synthetic drugs as type one, schedule one drugs. essentially that means you won't be able to buy or distribute them. now, even though this is not real, as you mentioned, we're talking about some very real side effects, the dea says the substances are just as dangerous, vomiting, hallucinations, seizures, los...