According to an estimate 65 percent of adults and 15 percent of children between the age group of 6 to 19 are obese in USA. The percentage of young people who are overweight has more than tripled since 1980, the agency reports. The International Obesity Taskforce warns that 10 percent of school-age children worldwide are overweight or obese, with rates continuing to soar. Health experts are concerned because obesity is the leading controllable risk factor for type 2 diabete. It is estimated that one in three children born in 2000 are prone to
diabetes and this figure will increase in case of racial minorities. Obesity may also accelerate the development of a phenomenon called double diabetes, in which children with type 1 diabetes develop insulin resistance. Obesity has grown more prevalent in people with type 1 diabetes along with the general population. Excess fat makes it harder to use insulin. Excess weight may also cause the pancreas to deteriorate.
The diabetes in children has greater risk factors. The more the man suffer more the complications. There is a possibility of damage of eyes,nerves and blood vessales. According to an agency hospital cost has nearly tripled due to childhood obesity.
All parents should be careful and should restrict the use of junk food for better health and future.
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That is really frightening isn't it? What is happening with young people today can affect them for the rest of their lives.
People are being raised on diets full of sugar and fat. It's no wonder we have such a health problem on our hands.
Joanne
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Hi Deb
Great article.
I see so many children who will have health problems later in life because their parents did NOT see that they ate a healthy diet. Parents now days just hand over whatever the child wants (cookies, chips, and other non-nutritious foods) without thought of what it is doing to their bodies. I do not blame the child but the parents for letting this happen. Whatever happened to Fruit for a snack?
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