Overweight Hispanic Children Shown To Have Vascular Inflammation

Science Daily ^ | 2-28-2008 | Joslin Diabetes Center

[Snickering Hound]

[Caipirabob]

Overweight Hispanic Children Shown To Have Vascular Inflammation

Jeez, at least someone out there can get Hispanic kids to finish their dinner. Any advice for my wife? ; )

[umgud]

This is just plain racist.

[kruss3]

Here in Houston one in three Hispanic kids is pre-diabetic by age 12. The cause is very simple: vitamin d deficiency causes calcium deficiency, causes extra iron absorption, causes fat cell inflamation, causes adiponectin deficiency, causes saturation of muscles with fatty acids, causes slower uptake of glucose into muscles, causes higher glucose and insulin balances, causes early vascular damage.

ken in houston

[e_castillo]

Did you sleep at a Holiday Inn last night?

:)

[Rb ver. 2.0]

Lard in tamales.

[Crawdad]

From: Understanding Vitamin D Deficiency

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050430/food.asp

Janet Raloff

Second of a three-part series on the sunshine vitamin

Our skin evolved to create vitamin D when it’s exposed to the sun’s ultraviolet (UV) rays. So, when most of the world’s population lived in or near equatorial regions, people had no shortfall of the nutrient, with their bodies making from 10,000 to 20,000 international units (IUs) of this vitamin each day.

However, over the millennia, more and more people moved to high latitudes, where up to half the year, solar-UV exposure isn’t enough to fuel vitamin D production in skin.

It also can be bad for health, a host of studies has recently indicated. For decades, vitamin D was appreciated largely for its role in boosting the absorption of calcium, important for bone health. However, over the past decade and especially the past 5 years, research has linked a broad range of additional benefits to having ample vitamin D. It’s shown that the nutrient fights cancers and diabetes, is the pivotal feedstock for a hormone that protects muscle, and inhibits autoimmune disorders from multiple sclerosis and lupus to inflammatory bowel disease (SN: 10/9/04, p. 232).

So moving north is killing these poor kids? Why, this must be stopped!

[muawiyah]

“Hispanic” is not a race. No idea what point you are trying to make.

[muawiyah]

Kind of the other way around. What you have to do is subject them to extreme deprivation ~ no sugars, low starch, little meat ~ make them overexercise ~ , and they will AVOID the quite normal condition called Type II diabetes which will happen to everybody with the genes to make it happen otherwise.

[bigjackattack]

uneducated and unhealthy, great

[umgud]

“Hispanic” is not a race. No idea what point you are trying to make.

Yeah, I know that. As to my point, I was being sarcastic and thought it obvious I didn't need a tag.

[muawiyah]

The "/sarc" tag helps when you are being sarcastic. We've gotten more than our fairshare of Leftwingnut trolls in here during the campaign season and they aren't being sarcastic.

I kind of like to know where the "/sarc" ought to be thought of before making a response. Once the campaign season is over and the Least Unliked has become President, I'll be quicker to notice your intentions.

[AmericanInTokyo]

and guess who gets to pay for it all

[GnuHere]

Great, we’ll be paying for their bypass surgeries by the time they’re pushing 30.

[Mamzelle]

re: Here in Houston one in three Hispanic kids is pre-diabetic by age 12. The cause is very simple: vitamin d deficiency)))

So, why are they deficient in D? Don't they drink the same milk as other kids?

[GnuHere]

McDonald’s?
I mean, they DID get their logo in the picture and all....

[Fundamentally Fair]

This is just plain racist.

Not the story, but a few of the posts so far...

[bigjackattack]

you mean the fat mexican mowing my lawn is not really saving me money

[RosieCotton]

As a group, the obese subjects had significantly higher percentages of body fat than the lean group

Gee...I never would have guessed!