Today is July 5th 2007 and it is my birthday. Whoopee I am 52.

So, Affluenza is it? I quote:

Diabetes will this year kill as many people around the world as Aids, prompting scientists to call the fast-growing disease the greatest epidemic of current times.
Around 3.8m people are expected to die from diabetes this year. While the type 2 version of the disease has been nicknamed "affluenza" and is mostly associated with obese people in the US and other rich countries, 80pc of sufferers are on low and middle incomes, according to the International Diabetes Federation

The full text article from the Telegraph is here.