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The Western lifestyle and average American diet pave a smooth road for developing various illnesses and diseases.
Over the years, food has become more processed, less natural, and filled with even greater amounts of toxic additives and ingredients than in the past.
The overall lifestyle changes over the years are leading a large number of adults and children alike to experience the onset of many health conditions – with some recent research pointing out that the number of children with diabetes increased 14% between 2000 and 2008.
The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, involved a survey of 3,383 participating children ages 12-19.
What the study conductors found was that the number of children ages 12-19 with pre-diabetes or diabetes increased from 9% to 23% between 2000 and 2008. While the huge increase in pre-diabetes and diabetes cases among children is concerning, it was also found that 13% of normal weight kids were either pre-diabetic or diabetic – showing that you don’t need to be overweight to be even pre-diabetic. Only 15 years ago, less than 3% of new cases of childhood diabetes were Type 2, but that number has since increased nearly to 50%.
However, the findings regarding children with diabetes weren’t the only ones the study had to offer:
“The objective of this study was to examine the recent trends in the prevalence of selected biological CVD risk factors and the prevalence of these risk factors by overweight/obesity status among US adolescents…The results of this national study indicate that US adolescents carry a substantial burden of CVD risk factors, especially those youth who are overweight or obese,” read the objective and conclusion.
While being overweight increases the risk of having diabetes, high blood pressure, and other health conditions, it is important to remember that these problems can occur even in normal-weight individuals. In fact, 37% of normal-weight kids had one or more cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure or high cholesterol.
- 18% had elevated blood pressure
- 13% had elevated blood sugar (pre-diabetes or diabetes)
- 10% had elevated cholesterol
On the other hand, foods like turmeric have been shown to cut heart disease and diabetes risk. The research, published in the journal Nutrition, shows how extremely simple dietary changes can have such a positive influence on health. In addition, a magnesium and diabetes connection has been made, with research showing that magnesium may play an integral role in helping to prevent type 2 diabetes – the type escalating in children.
Even if you aren’t fat on the outside, know that the food you consume is still having a profound effect on your internal system. Food not only contains calories, but also a number of other vitamins, nutrients, and minerals that help to control hormone production, gene expressions, protein synthesis, and much more.
The food you consume has an impact on your whole body – not just weight.
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This article first appeared at Natural Society, an excellent resource for health news and vaccine information.
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8 comments:
so sad.... i chaperoned my son's kindergarden field trip. we had lunch with some kids from another school, and mom had to check her son's blood sugar before eating a lunch of processed food. gaterade, doritos etc....i wanted to shake this woman and tell her there is another way.
i did however get some parental looks of disdain while my son and i finished our wholesome lunch with homemade cupcakes.....
i can't imagine having to test blood sugar and administer insulin shots to my 6 yr old who is terrified of needles, even though he have never gotten any shots.
Three supplements immediately come to mind regarding issues of the control of blood sugar.
1.) Chelated Chromium - This is chromium that's bound to an amino acid (usually glycine) which helps improve its absorption and bio-availability. Plays a big role in how receptive receptors are to insulin, thus can help prevent insulin resistance.
2.) Copper Sebacate - High fructose-corn syrup is known to lower copper levels which can be a problem because copper needs to be kept in balance with chromium.
3.) Banaba Leaf Extract - I recently discovered this one and have read some promising things about it. Worth a look for anyone who may be struggling with type-2 diabetes.
Type 1 diabetes is an auto immune disease does not result from diet. Can eat any carbs but must take insulin because pancreas does not function.So dont judge people out of your own ignorance.
It's true, but less than2% of children have type 1 diabetes from auto immune disease & even if they do, having a good diet is still important so their diabetes doesn't get worse.
Look we are all surplus population. They want to make sure we die as soon as we are no longer necessary. In the 2000 census, it showed that 20% of the population dies before reaching 50 and 1/3 never made it to 62. Of those who do reach retirement age, the average life expectancy is 5 1/2 years. This is why there is so much poison in our food & the government allows more & more. Why 50? Because by 50, you've worked the best years of your youth & have brought the next generation of slaves as the majority of births ate between the ages of 14-19. What do they need you for after you turn 50, to collect social security? That's why in countries like Italy & Hungry, gmo foods are illegal, because the average family doesn't have kids until they are 40, so you have to make sure people are healthy to have kids at 40 & for them to live 20 years to raise those new generation of slaves.
This story is pure BS. There has been NO increase in diabetes. But for the last few years scientists and doctors have made a huge effort to identify people who have diabetes and don't know it. The result is an increase in the "known" people/children with diabetes but NOT an increase in total diabetes. The people who put out these bullshit stories know these facts and still they claim we are in a diabetes epidemic. They do this because their funding increases as the fear factor increases. It is dispicable, dishonest, immoral and pure Bullshit but it gets them more funding so they do it. Almost all of the misinformation published about diabetes is to keep the funding coming and keep the fear factor high. You do not catch type II diabetes from eating junk food or sugar or bad diet. You get diabetes from your parents and grandparents; it's genetic. If you have it and don't know it then you can make the symptoms worse by eating things that aggravate your disease.
There is no "poison" in our food that is a stupid and provably false old wives tale. And your math is faulty because life expectancy in the U.S. is 78 so we aren't dying at 50.
Only an idiot would say there is no poison in our food or there is no increase in diabetes. What planet are you living on? You must be one of the morons who who allow this stuff to happen!
My explanation of why the "statistics" make it appear that diabetes is increasing is nothing more then discovering more formerly unknown diabetes was clear. And yet somehow you failed to comprehend. In the U.S. 10 years ago there were about 80 million people with diabetes and about 40 million of these cases were identified. Because of a push by health care workers to identify people with diabetes about 2 million more people were indeed identified. This meant there were now 42 million people with diabetes identified and about 38 million still unidentified. Still 80 million !!! No increase!!! But the way this data is presented does indeed fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time.
Poisonous food? where? Go ahead, give it to me. What's your food bias?? McDonalds? HFCS? MSG? Red meat? GMO?? Sugar? What was it that got your fear factor buzzing??
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