Diabetes Mellitus and Fatness - Youth & Teenage

 

Earlier than about 10 years, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in young people did not exceed 3%, but today the rate is over 40%. This point alone shows the epidemic that has received particular disease at young ages. What should be careful, therefore, the parents and what the appropriate responses? Diabetes Mellitus (DM) type 2 and obesity is the modern scourges of our time. The incidence of both is increasing dramatically worldwide in recent years, thus represent an enormous medical, social and economic problem that urgently looking for solutions and human, scientifically documented, our care.

There is no doubt that the so-called "surroundings" is the most important aggravating factor in the occurrence of type 2 diabetes and obesity in children, the school plays a key role in the feeding behavior of children without neglecting, however, the important role the family and society in general. It is not easy in a society consuming and wasteful, to learn the child, the new or the new principles of proper and healthy diet, when the environment in which it develops and functions follow a completely different lifestyle and diet.

Present Disease

 

 

Before about 10 years, the incidence of type 2 diabetes in adolescents did not exceed 3%. Today the rate is over 40% in the second decade of life is the most common occurrence in type 2 diabetes, once he starts puberty, what this implies the development of children and the largest in more than 75% coexists strong family history of hereditary, in the first or second degree relatives! Also the growth of fatness in type 2, diabetes in children is more rapid than in adults, thus appearing more often and sooner complications and cardiovascular problems, affecting negatively quality of life and sustainability of obese diabetic children. The development of fatness in type 2, diabetes usually begins in children with average elevated fasting sugars or reduced glucose tolerance, several years before the outbreak of the POA. This is mainly for children born to overweight (more than 4,000 g.) From overweight mother presented diabetes pregnancy, birth or normal (less than 4,000 g.), But took a lot of weight in adolescence and have a strong family history (parents, grandparents) with type 2 diabetes or fatness.”