According to the American Diabetes Association 7% of American's suffer from diabetes and we caught up with one Butte veteran with the disease and who recently participated in a walk-a-thon in his wheelchair.

At one point Danny Casey's foot was affected by complications due to diabetes from being overweight. At his heaviest the 72-year-old weighed over 300 pounds but after foot surgery in March and losing weight he was able to walk last weekend and place first in his age group in the Fort Harrison Second Annual Walkathon for Veterans.

After battling cancer, obesity and diabetes Casey says he hopes that his story will inspire others.

"I had the fire department up there rooting for me I just had. I had more support and it was a real good Irish memory in the can-do city Butte. Don't ever tell a kid from Butte he can't do something because by God I can do it and I did it."

Numbers show that around 10.3 million people over the age of 60 sixty have diabetes.