May 21st, 2012 by Len Saunders
From The Canton Rep?..
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that once was called adult-onset diabetes.
The name becomes less accurate when you consider Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise, fueled largely by a childhood obesity epidemic.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.
The percentage of children age six to 11 years in the United States who were obese increased from seven percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008. The number of adolescents age 12 to 19 years who were obese increased from five percent to 18 percent over the same period.
In fact, says the CDC, in 2008, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.
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