Why is Type 2 Diabetes Becoming
More Common in Children and
Adults?
Type 2 diabetes is epidemic in almost every country in the world. Once a disease associated with people aged 60 and above, it is now being diagnosed in children as young as eight. Dr. Jean-Claude DesMangles of the Creighton University School of Medicine, estimates that 45 per cent of all new cases of diabetes in children are type 2, whereas 50 years ago type 2 diabetes in children was almost unknown.
Children diagnosed with diabetes type 2 face many of the same deadly complications that were once seldom seen before the age of 65: They are equally likely to develop kidney disease after 20 years of the disease... as soon as their 20's and 30's the risk of fatal kidney disease is actually higher in young type 2 (non-insulin dependent).
Diabetics than in type 1 (insulin-dependent diabetics)In addition to striking earlier and earlier in life, type 2 diabetes is being diagnosed in more and more people of all ages. The percentage of adults who have this form of diabetes is six times higher in 2010 than it was in 1965.
Adult Onset Diabetes and
'Quacks'
Why is type 2 diabetes becoming more and more common?
The simple answer is: modern life requires much less physical activity than at any other period in recorded history.just reading a book about diabetes for example, once might have entailed thumbing through drawers of index cards to locate a book, and then walking through a library and reaching up to pick the book off the shelf. Now books about diabetes can be downloaded to an iPod or a Kindle eating a french fry required buying a potato, peeling it, soaking it in salt water, drying it out.
Then standing over the stove for half an hour, carefully fishing out the fries as they cooked.Now it is possible to pop frozen fries in the microwave riding a bus or walking to work used to be the norm. Now most people drive to work in their own cars.Less and less physical activity is required in daily life, but food contains more and more calories.
The protective effects of exercise are no longer part of the picture for tens of millions of people who are learning they have type 2 diabetes.There is no good denying that type 2 diabetes is an epidemic: there are currently 246 million diabetics in the world, and 90% of them have diabetes type 2. The good news is that with the right diet, nutritional supplements and lifestyle changes, you can actually reverse it!
Are You At Risk Of Contracting Diabetes
Would you like more information about alternative ways to handle your type 2 diabetes?
To download your free copy of my E-Book, click here now: Answers to Your Questions. its based on questions many diabetics have asked me over recent months.Beverleigh Piepers is a registered nurse who would like to help you understand how to live easily and happily with your type 2 diabetes.
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