Obesity and Diabetes – Is There a Link?
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at
2:23 pm
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One of the most talked about consequences of obesity today is the development of diabetes. In fact researchers have coined a new term for this association: diabesity. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control, diabetes has officially reached epidemic proportions. Over 17 million Americans have diabetes, which represents a 49 percent increase in the past decade!
Nowadays, we are faced with childhood obesity that slowly turns into an epidemic, as more and more kids have become affected with this problem. The researches done by the National Institutes of Health show that the number of children who are overweight is two times bigger than it was in the last two to three decades. It means that presently one child in five is overweight. Further, childhood obesity doesn’t refer only to a particular age, group or race – it’s mostly spread during youth and adolescence among both boys and girls, regardless of their race.
