Posted on 05/02/2006 2:42:22 PM PDT by neverdem
Seattle Times medical reporter
Nearly 2.8 million teenagers in the U.S. could be on the brink of developing type 2 diabetes — a disease that used to be almost exclusive to adults — and another 39,000 teens may already have the disease, a University of Washington scientist has estimated in a new analysis of the growing prevalence of diabetes.
The findings support growing concerns among public-health authorities nationwide over the increasing number of kids who are overweight, a major factor in the development of type 2 diabetes. The disease can eventually lead to kidney failure, limb amputations, blindness, heart disease, strokes and high blood pressure.
"What we're seeing is a reduction in physical activity and an increase in the prevalence of overweight kids," said Glen Duncan, the UW assistant professor of nutrition who conducted the study. "These things go hand in hand with diabetes, so this [the findings] is no surprise to me at all."
About 18.2 million people in the United States have diabetes, including 210,000 people under 20, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Another 1.3 million new cases a year are being diagnosed, and the vast majority are type 2, the agency said. The disease formerly was almost exclusive to people older than 40.
Patients with type 2 diabetes are not able to use the insulin made by their bodies to metabolize glucose in the body. Those with type 1, formerly called juvenile diabetes, are not able to make insulin; more than 1 million Americans have that form of the disease.
Duncan's research, reported in the May edition of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, echoes previous findings from the National Institutes of Health that showed a growth of type 2 diabetes in younger people. Duncan used data from extensive national health and nutrition...
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sugar sugar sugar fat fat fat sugar sugar sugar fat fat fat
Bout 50 yrs of that or substitute nutrisweet or some other chemical pesticide/sweetener and voila...
some kinda dang disease is bound to get ya...
That's why I recommend ™Hershey's real choclate chips with your daily frozen burrito.
Yeah well my daughter has genetic based obesity, a good diet and still has to wait until she is eighteen or 350 pounds until she can have lapband surgery
What is genetic-based obesity?
I'm sorry to read about your daughter. The link in comment# 1 discusses the genetic variants that cause MODY, with links to references.
the blame game continues
MODY, ADD, OCD.... never any personal choices or responsibility mentioned
I have 9 year old identical twin girls, and one is overweight and the other one isn't. The thing is that they eat about the same thing, except one doesn't like breakfast.
The one that is a little overweight has always been bigger. She started a 1/2 pound bigger. Her twin sister had feeding issues so when they were a year old, the bigger one was probably 2 pounds bigger.
Every year, the bigger one just keeps on getting just a little bit bigger.
They are both fairly active. After school, they play for about 30-45 minutes on the playground. During the summer, they both swim several hours every day.
My son is very inactive and watches lots of TV and plays lots of computer games, and he is skinny as a rail.
I'm starting to get really worried about my one daughter. I've finally really started making her watch what she eats. Eats really hard because her brother and sister eat whatever they want and stay skinny.
If we all ate the way type 1 diabetics are supposed to eat (i.e. like the zone diet), skinny or fat, we'd all be much healthier and leaner.
I hope you get your daughter's weight under control. If she's a tubby kid she'll likely remain tubby for life.
Think all the crap corn syrup in everything has anything to do with this or are we not allowed to talk about that...
The skinny one doesn't like breakfast. The other one usually eats a Leggo waffle plain, or a bowl of healthy cereal and milk.
No one has diabetes. My husband and I were really skinny kids, and we're both still fairly slim.
My tubby daughter almost died of a respiratory illness when she was a baby. She had very severe asthma for her first few years. She was on lots of steroids. She was sick and inactive during that time, and the medicine made her hungry. She still gets very winded, and I think the whole ashthma thing just slowed her metabolism. She weighs about 14 pounds more than her sister. She didn't have to put on that much weight each year, just 1 or 2 pounds a year would do it.
Ever hear of my favorite quote about economic forecasting?
Do you have a graph of per capita corn syrup consumption versus obesity, diabetes, etc.?
make that: corn syrup corn syrup corn syrup fat fat fat inactivity inactivity inactivity fat fat fat
and you've got it right. :)
Very interesting. Has your overweight daughter had testing done to determine her serum levels of thyroid hormones, corticosteroids, and androgens?
Thyroid yes, but not the others.
Have you had her thyroid checked....by a COMPETENT endocrinologist....thyroid levels that are supposedly "normal" for some really are not....plus, they need to check the FREE T4 and FREE T3, NOT just the TSH...just a suggestion.
Think all the crap corn syrup in everything has anything to do with this or are we not allowed to talk about that...
There's only a handful of us who know there's a difference. ;)
Have you noticed.....they put SUGAR in canned peas, canned corn, lots of canned stuff.....unbelievable....course we don't eat much canned stuff, but when storing up for emergency those are the things I try to buy (and notice the sugar in most of them.)
What is genetic-based obesity?
It is obesity engender by chromosome abnormalities.
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