Lyndia Grant shares her story of her mother's 12-year struggle with Type 2 diabetes and the devastation it caused to her family, and calls for more education and prevention efforts to combat the disease.

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Oprah Winfrey was able to reverse her prediabetes diagnosis by changing her diet and exercise habits, demonstrating the importance of lifestyle changes in preventing the devastating effects of Type 2 diabetes.

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Type 2 diabetes is prevalent among African Americans due to the "thrifty genes" inherited from their enslaved ancestors, who ate a diet of scraps and worked long hours of physical labor, and the presence of harmful synthetic chemicals in food.

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The "thrifty genes" of enslaved Africans protected them from the effects of a poor diet, but the modern lifestyle of sedentary work and high-carbohydrate diets has led to a rise in Type 2 diabetes.

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Lyndia Grant wrote an article in 2003 about her mother's 12-year struggle with Type 2 diabetes, and the lack of knowledge about the disease in the African American community, which has been translated into different languages and shared worldwide.

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Napoleon Hill's book "Think and Grow Rich" emphasizes the importance of using our sixth sense, or infinite intelligence, to make our dreams come true by walking by faith and not by sight.

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Lyndia Grant encourages her readers to speak victory during the test, trusting in God's wonders and staying focused on the goal of Kamala Harris becoming the next president of the United States.

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Fear is faith going the wrong way, and it is important to have faith in God to overcome fear and achieve our goals.

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Allow me to share with you about how my older brother was murdered, right here in the District of Columbia.  He was a merchant, owner of a floor sanding and refinishing company located on upper Georgia Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C. My brother was three years older than me.  The family was so proud of […]

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