7-year-olds diagnosed with T2 diabetes

www.grub4life.org.uk today reports that children as young as 7 are being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, which is usually associated with the middle-aged and elderly, because of increasingly unhealthy lifestyles, specialists have warned. 12-07-2012

Parents are to blame for driving their children to school, feeding them junk food and letting them lounge around for hours, they say.

The experts warn that a “tsunami” of diabetes is engulfing the country, but millions are ignorant of the risks they face.

Too many have hardly heard of the disease, or believe it is just a “mild” condition, according to a panel convened by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (Nice) to provide new advice on preventing it.

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