Less than one percentage (0.93%, or 1.58 million) of the 1958 US population was diagnosed with diabetes . This was nearly six decades ago. Amazingly diabetes rates in the United States tripled from 1958 to 1991 [2.90% (or 7.21 million cases)] . Nearly all of the threedecade increase was from non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) [now called type 2 diabetes (T2D)], not in the juvenile form [now termed type 1 diabetes (T1D)]. In our opinion, the increase in T2D from 1958 to 1991 was relatively unnoticed. Since T2D is a noncommunicable chronic disease, we speculate that the increase of 5.63 million cases of diabetes over a three-decade period was less publicized than if 5 million people became infected with influenza, a communicable disease, in 1 week. It wasn’t until the mid-1990s that two landmark events began to garner limited attention to the T2D epidemic. First, over the roughly three-decade span from 1958 to 1991, the increase in diabetes prevalence linearly increased about 1% per decade, such that by 1991 it had tripled in percentage . From the year 1991 onward, the diagnosed percentage of diabetes was 2.90%, 2.93%, 3.06%, 2.98%, 3.30%, and 2.89% for the years of 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1996, respectively. Then after 1996, an upward infliction in the percentage gain of diagnosed diabetes occurred. Data will next be presented as percentage gain, rather than as absolute percentage of total diabetes cases, in a given time period. Whereas a 1% gain per 10 years in total US population occurred in total diabetes cases from 1958 to 1991, the percentage rate doubled during the next 15 years.