Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Children

        In hospitals everywhere boys and girls who are chubby to hugely obese, are being diagnosed with type two diabetes. Some children as young as six. This disease used to be called adult onset diabetes because it rarely occurred before the middle age. Most all diabetes in children is type one. When getting type two diabetes victims stop making insulin completely so they won't convert sugar to energy. Doctors blame inactivity and over eating, also children are drinking 20-ounce sodas in schools. Most kids with type two diabetes are overweight.  Kids with diabetes are usually big and tall for their age and huge all over . Their parents are big too. Doctors estimate for every child with type two four or five others have metabolic syndrome, a combination of high blood pressure, bad cholesterol counts and insulin resistance. Also when becoming obese finding comfort in food can be an effect. The Diabetes Association recommends having children tested for type two diabetes if they are overweight or have a parent with the disease. Watch out! Obesity can have a big effect on your life.


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