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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You can certainly talk about it but you'd just be blaming something other than the real cause of obesity and diabetes.
More importantly, consumption of HFCS has declined since its peak in 1999. The USDA estimates per capita sugar consumption in 2004 was 44.0 lbs per year and 42.3 lbs per year for HFCS.
They even put it in a brand of tooth paste I used to use... I threw that crap out.
Read: The Biggest Piggie?
http://www.reason.com/0403/fe.js.confessions.shtml
For anyone that thinks I'm full of crap on the "corn syrup" comment, go to the store and look at the ingredients of most of the things on the shelves...
You are RIGHT ON....I'm with ya.....course I cook most meals from scratch....sooooo I don't have to worry about it, but it's hitting busy families/kids really hard.
I don't think you're full of it but I do think you are misinformed. HFCS is a sugar substitute. It is used only where sugar once was, or where it would be, if we didn't have to pay 2-3 times the world price for sugar to protect our sugar farmers.
Sugar (sucrose) and HFCS are made up of the same ingredients in almost identical proportions. To say that one causes all sorts deleterious effects in humans while the other doesn't is pretty silly. Would you have thrown that toothpaste away if it had sugar instead of HFCS?
ADM has been an unethical company for a long time. That doesn't mean that the products they make are bad for you. They're more partial to price fixing. There are four other companies who supply the vast majority of HFCS in this country. Cargill and Staley are two of them and they are first class companies. I don't understand your fear of HFCS unless you also fear sugar. Of course, then you'd have to explain why either of them, in moderation, are bad for you.
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