alarming increase of juvenile type 2 diabetes

by franklin J 9 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  franklin J

  I know 3 guys in business whose small preschool children have just been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes; requiring 2 insulin injections daily; and other varying degrees of medical attention due to the diabetes.

  The more I discuss this with people the more I hear about it. It almost seems to be at epidemic proportions. It seems to strike with no warning or ryhme or reason; the only symptoms the child has is thirst, until a diagnosis is made.

  Has anyone else noticed this?...I'll be watching my kids closely.
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  ApagaLaLuz

  I havent noticed it. But I think proper nutrition for children is imparative. When I first got Spencer he was sickly, and had nose bleeds all the time. Twice I had to call 911 to have an ambulance transport him to the hospital to get the bleeding to stop. I took him from one specialist to another, they couldnt figure out what was wrong with him. I implemented a healthy diet for him, including lots of irons and proteins and started giving him vitamins. He can have "junk food" from time to time, but he doesnt drink soda, and I try to make sure he has as balanced of a diet as possible. Our nation has an alarming amount of obesse children. I was one of them. I constantly had health problems growing up, and now as an adult who learned healthy eating, I dont have very many problems.
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  franklin J

  chevy,

  I agree with you about healthy diets; and there does seem to be much news these days about obese children ( THAT seems to be purely an American problem).

  The juvenile type 2 diabetes strikes despite a healthy diet and a healthy child. Current medical diagnosis do not seem to know what causes the type 2 diabetes which is very disturbing.
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  Undaunted Danny

  I have type Two diabetes.

  The K.I.S.S. rule with diabetes. GET AT LEAST 45 MINS A DAY OF STRENUOUS EXERCISE .

  I could go on and elaborate the pathogenesis all day.Above is 80% of the therapy.
  
  
  
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  NeonMadman

  I have type 2 diabetes too, but it didnt show up till I was around 50. Now that I have my weight mostly under control (Having lost about 140 lb), my blood sugar is always normal.

  But I thought type 2 was senior onset by definition...isn't juvenile diabetes type 1?
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  kls

  I have been hearing that same thing since the early eighties. A girl friend's daughter was found to have type 2 diabetes at 10 yrs of age. And heard from drs. and nurses that is was a epidemic then.
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  Scully

  Type 1 diabetes involves the inability of the pancreas to produce insulin, meaning that insulin is absent in a person's system which requires that they have supplemental insulin injections to control their blood sugar levels.

  Type 2 diabetes is also known as insulin resistant diabetes. This means that a person does produce insulin, however their cells are resistant to their own insulin and therefore does not process blood sugar normally. It is part of what is now being called Metabolic Syndrome, which features a wide variety of symptoms and lifestyle choices, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, insulin resistance and a sedentary lifestyle. The best treatment is proper diet and regular exercise. There is an alarming increase in this type of diabetes in North America - our fast food culture and exercise-averse lifestyle has almost 100% to do with this. This kind of illness is 100% preventable, and for children especially, it is 100% reversible with lifestyle changes that reduce dietary fat and simple carbohydrate intake and increase physical activity.

  Too much McDonald's, too much Nintendo.... Metabolic Syndrome is what the future holds.

  Love, Scully
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  NeonMadman

  our fast food culture and exercise-averse lifestyle has almost 100% to do with this. This kind of illness is 100% preventable, and for children especially, it is 100% reversible with lifestyle changes that reduce dietary fat and simple carbohydrate intake and increase physical activity.

  Yep, sounds like me - as I said, since losing lots of weight, my blood sugar always tests in the normal range.
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  Undaunted Danny

  Scully R U an RN cause RN stands for Real Nice?
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  simplesally

  Speaking of soda...........soda has phosperus and that blocks calcium or Vitamin D, can't remember which.......so for those who don't want to worry about osteoperosis and do want their bones to grow normally, avoid soda!