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Originally Posted by Indy107  I'm sorry. I beg to differ.
"The Growing Epidemic
One significant study of adolescents in a large Midwestern city found that the rate of type 2 diabetes increased 10-fold from 1982 to 1994, representing 33% of all adolescent cases of diabetes. Nationally, it is estimated that 29% of adolescent patients with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, resulting in an estimated 2.8 million adolescents in the U.S. with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.
Given the rise of childhood obesity, it is estimated that more than one third of all children who were born in 2000 will eventually develop diabetes, either during childhood or after adolescence." Diabetes and Kids - Type 2 Diabetes in Kids |
That's interesting in that those are worse than the numbers I remember.
I do think those numbers are being presented in a way intended for scare value, particularly lumping "prediabetes" in with actual diabetes.
What most people should be able to agree on is that the fundamental issue behind all of this is weight. America needs to hit the gym.