The long-term direct and indirect costs of Diabetes are incredibly high.

The direct costs will be medical visits, hospital tests and drug care with diabetes management.

Long term effects may include earlier than usual death, complications with other illnesses and a possible shorter working life.

Indirect costs may include extra investment required in hospital buildings and lost tax revenue.

Estimating an exact cost of Diabetes is difficult and will vary from country to country; it is obvious that Diabetes costs more to society and the individual than if a citizen was healthy - some hint that Diabetes will Double or Treble the "normal" long-term medical care costs of a person.

One report is published in Research and Clinical Practice Volume 87(2010) on pages 293 to 301.

This report indicates Mean health expenditure per person with diabetes in 2010.

The costs vary from $683 in Saudi Arabia to $7383 in the US with $3575 in the UK.

Let us assume a cost of $1,000 / person / year.

1000 cases cost at least $1,000,000/year; that's a total cost of $40,000,000 in a 40 year treatment lifetime!

Who can ignore saving that amount of money on just 1,000 people ?????