The public policies in nutrition and diabetes must be adapted to treatments for (re) education of the Mexican population regarding the disease through preventive means and the construction of spaces that promote healthy lifestyles, autonomous conscious dietary consumption patient. Within these, and as a first contact, food and diet, which are the main determinants of the development of the disease, since they would generate a positive economic impact in the country, reducing health spending on treatments and making available the possibility of a real investment in health rather than disease, that is, investing in the population as generators of practical health directly on promotion and prevention. For the above, it is necessary then, a readjustment of health policies taking into account both quantitative and qualitative scientific evidence not only from the biological, but from the social, contextualization, regionalization, culture, ideology, traditions, uses and customs, positions that adjust the social practice of the disease and determines the attachment or not to treatments. That makes to public policies in health an inclusive social model which goes in a way ascendant.