[posterchild]

Ferris, Cameron and Sloan are skinny and surprisingly free of Millennial teen and early adult diseases like Diabetes and High Blood Pressure. Why? Because they went places and did things!

Is that what causes Diabetes in teens and early adults (which is typically Type 1)? Who knew?

[pboyington]

But now younger people are also getting type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset diabetes. But now it is becoming more common in children and teens, due to more obesity. With Type 2 diabetes, the body does not make or use insulin well.

Children have a higher risk of type 2 diabetes if they are obese, have a family history of diabetes, or are not active, and do not eat well. To lower the risk of type 2 diabetes in children

[boop]

No, it refers to diabetes type 2.

Associated with being fat at a young age.

Just like adults.

Insulin resistance due to obesity.

Type I diabetes is still a mystery.

Nobody knows why kids get it.

Sometimes in completely normal bodied children.