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"According to a new health study more than half of all Californians, 55 percent, have either diabetes or are in the pre-stages of getting it, and the numbers are higher for Central Coast residents.The report conducted by researchers at UCLA shows 59 percent of San Benito County residents have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Monterey County is at 57 percent, while Santa Cruz County came in 52 percent.Up to 70 percent of people with pre-diabetes will develop diabetes in their lifetime. The disease is now the 7th-leading causing of death in California.READ: Complete study by UCLA on diabetes\u201CIt was a life changer for me. It was pretty devastating,\u201D said Troy Fink of Salinas.Fink was diagnosed with diabetes a year ago but now has the disease under control after changing his diet and exercising more.Fink wanted his health back, \u201Cso that I can see my kids graduate from high school, and college, and have grand kids. It was pretty obvious that wasn\u2019t going to happen if I continued the way I was going.\"If uncontrolled diabetes can be debilitating even deadly. Many patients will lose their vision, limbs, have heart attacks, even go on dialysis.Nicolas Kissell, a doctor at Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare, said exercise and healthy eating are crucial.\u201CYou don\u2019t have to run a marathon to prevent diabetes just be active and really nothing in excess a slice of birthday cake of course but going back for the half cake that\u2019s not what we\u2019re encouraging,\u201D Kissell said."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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