You can’t watch the news today without hearing about the “obesity epidemic”.
In fact, recent research has shown that obesity is a bigger health threat than smoking.
But wait, it gets worse.
Now, we learn that our lifestyle has lead to an unprecedented increase in the rates of Type 1 Diabetes.
According to medical journalist Dan Hurley, “the incidence of type 1 diabetes is now twice as high among children as it was in the 1980s, and 10 to 20 times more common than 100 years ago.”
While rising levels of type 2 diabetes are well known (and typically linked to increasing obesity), the corresponding rise in type 1, or “juvenile,” diabetes has rarely if ever been described in the news media, despite a substantial body of scientific evidence.
While widely accepted by leading diabetes researchers, the increase in type 1 has as yet received scant attention from leading diabetes advocacy organizations.
Scant attention???
I had no idea […]
Original post by healthhabits
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