Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes was recently an adult disease, but now children have been getting this disease because they are obese. When you have type 2 diabetes you lose the ability to use sugar for energy. Ice cream, candy, and other foods with sugar are making kids in America fatter and leading many of them to type 2 diabetes.

When kids have type 2 diabetes at a younger age they might develop a greater chance of getting serious problems of type 2 diabetes in later like kidney failure, amputation of limbs, and blindness. Three patients were on dialysis, and two of them had a serious injury. One had a toe amputation, and another had blindness. Among 33 patients they had in one year with diabetes two-thirds of them had poor blood sugar.

Doctors have been shocked by the rise of type 2 diabetes in young people, but the doctors are not surprised because this disease is related to obesity and American children are becoming more obese. About 92% percent of all people that have type 2 diabetes are insulin resistant. Insulin resistant is associated with abnormal metabolic problems that decides before hand for people with type 2 diabetes to cardiovascular disease.

Here are some foods that are good for you in the meat section that are healthy: canadian bacon, lean ham, lean pork, turkey, and veal. Here are healthy foods in the seafood section: crab, crayfish, every kind of fish, oyster, scallops, and shrimp. Every kind of fruit is healthy except pineapples, watermelons, ripe bananas, and raisins. Every kind of vegetable is healthy except beets, corn, parsnips, white potatoes, turnips, baked beans, and sweet pickles.

Diabetes is a disease that many people have, but if you treat it right than nothing bad will happen to you. Also, don't eat too many foods with too much sugar in it.