The Obesity Epidemic and Juvenile Diabetes
The increasing obesity epidemic among children today is thought to be a leading cause in the increase in juvenile diabetes in this country today. While not everyone agrees on the causes and affects it is hard to argue with the continuing increase of children with Type 2 diabetes who are also overweight. In fact as the percentages of obese children raises so does the percentage of those affected with juvenile diabetes at nearly the same rate.
There appear to be two main reasons for this increase in Type 2 diabetes among children. Most children these days have a sedentary lifestyle that revolves around watching TV, playing video games, or using their computer to chat with and email their friends. The second issue for many kids is their poor eating habits and nutrition. Living the fast food life style or eating a bag a chips while playing video games is one of the major reasons for the preponderance of overweight kids we see today.
For many years Type 2 diabetes was something that overweight adults had to contend with, mainly because children weren’t having the weight issues they have today. Type 2 diabetes in an adult is also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes. The primary treatment for this type of this disease is lifestyle changes involving diet and exercise for both children and adults.
One of the main concerns with type 2 juvenile diabetes is the affects it can have later on in a child’s life. Children with type 2 diabetes have been found to have more life threatening complications than type 1 diabetics. Some of the major problems juveniles with this type of diabetes face include heart disease, damage to the nervous system, renal failure, blindness, and limb amputations, particularly of the feet and lower legs.
The first line of defense against juvenile type 2 diabetes is probably the most obvious. Maintain a healthy body weight through proper diet and exercise thus preventing the onset of the disease. For children already diagnosed this same treatment applies if they are to avoid the complications to their health later in life.
For the juvenile diabetic a healthy diet is the cornerstone of their treatment. A well balanced diet low in sugar, saturated fats, and salt is the way to go. High fiber foods such as fruits and vegetables, along with complex carbohydrates are best for the diabetic. Even then foods high in carbs should be eaten throughout the day to help prevent large rises in blood glucose levels. Regular physical activity or exercise is also recommended to help insulin move glucose out of the blood and into the cells.
Childhood obesity is an epidemic all parents should take seriously. The long term health affects of all children are at stake, particularly with an increased risk of juvenile diabetes, a disease that will affect any child for their life time. By making easy lifestyle changes centered on a healthy diet and physical activity the onset of type 2 diabetes can be prevented, or even delayed in children at high risk.
Andrew Bicknell
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March 5th, 2010 at 7:37 pm
Is it possible that America is so smart that our meter rolled back to stupid?
Why is it that in a country where we pay people to figure out how fast a monkey turd can hit the ground as it falls from a tree, how many hairs the average gorilla sheds during the summer, how many pounds of gas the average elephant produces, how many years breast implants last…
…we still can’t seem to grasp the idea that schools should not serve children chilli nachos and french fries in a country where juvenile obesity and diabetes is at epidemic levels?
March 6th, 2010 at 12:39 am
We have definitely rolled back to stupid. We even elect stupid people. Which is sad because we are a country of smart people.
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:41 am
America is messed up
When they all get heart attacks, they will (hopefully) realize thier mistakes
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:43 am
no
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:45 am
no because america is just america. it is the people that changes the country, not itself.
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:47 am
No, it’s just that way too many people in control of the the government and school system were indoctrinated by the ghost of the Third Communist International, mostly in the ’60s and ’70s. It is those people who are stuck on stupid.
Why on Earth would you expect a socialistic educational system to be anything but defective?
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:49 am
That’s awesome, you have hit the nail on the head…you’re my new hero!
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:51 am
In America, anything is possible. It is a nation of possibilities. So all the misfits are also in America. America likes to be different, it is nothing near ‘being conservative’. While all other nations strive to have surplus in their International Balance of Trade, America gets the kick of having Deficit for so many years that it now landed itself not in Mars but is in deep s**t.
If you drew the world map on your butt, you can guess which country will be right in the middle.
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:53 am
A very good question. People just don’t care anymore. They don’t want to eat heathy food when there exists poison that tastes better.
The knowledge is out there but as long as there are people making money off of other people’s stupidity, then it will continue. It’s all about the money.
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Such blind spots are almost certainly down to the blindness of arrogance – a uniquely human failing which has led to the downfall of great civilizations – even great movements and great ideas – many times before…!
Thus, I venture to suggest that America’s hubris is now so firmly entrenched, even amongst its greatest scientific thinkers, that the mere possibility of failure has ceased to be regarded as a realistic consideration.
In addition to your own examples – and even more worryingly – I submit that today’s ever-ascending spiral of realistic horror and violence currently contaminating every aspect of our visual arts is already way out of control – leading to this youth-obsessed culture’s drug-accelerated insensitivety to vile crime, cruel brutality and the inevitable disintegration of Western society.
Hardly surprising in a nation so "stupid" that its overriding preoccupations, these days, are global money-making and warmongering.
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:57 am
we also fail to realize that reform and education in prisons and jails makes the recivism rates go way down. yeah. the thing is we know all this shit, but we are so lazy and cheap that we do what is easy
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March 6th, 2010 at 12:59 am
dunno.
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March 6th, 2010 at 1:01 am
Hehe, good one.
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March 6th, 2010 at 1:03 am
Yep
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