Disaster 1 in 3 teens have prediabetes, new CDC data shows - The disease can be prevented by losing weight if overweight and being more physically active, the agency added.

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An estimated 1 in 3 teens and preteens, ages 12 to 17, have prediabetes, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The CDC data means an estimated 8.4 million young people -- or 32.7% of the U.S. adolescent population -- had prediabetes in 2023, the most recent data available.

With prediabetes, blood sugar levels are higher than normal but not high enough for a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis.

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Prediabetes, which the CDC calls a "critical warning sign," increases a person's risk of developing Type 2 diabetes as well as other conditions like heart disease and stroke.

Separate from the new data among teens, new diabetes diagnoses among adultshave also stopped decreasing after more than a decade of decline -- with about 1.5 million diagnoses in 2023, the most recent data.

In a statement, Dr. Christopher Holliday, the CDC’s top official in charge of diabetes prevention, said Type 2 diabetes poses a "significant threat" to young people's health.

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“Simple life changes – like healthy eating and staying active – can make a big difference in preventing or delaying type 2 diabetes,” said Holliday, who called the new data "a wake-up call."

Risk factors for prediabetes include being overweight, having a parent or sibling with Type 2 diabetes, as well as being physically active less than three times a week, according to the CDC.

The disease can be prevented by losing weight if overweight and being more physically active, the agency added.

 

[Otterly]

What the heck? This isn’t some kind of ‘kids have different thresholds’ stuff or something is it? One in three children being pre diabetic is horrific. T2 used to be almost unheard of in children. Bodes very badly for the future

 

[General Emílio Médici]

What the heck? This isn’t some kind of ‘kids have different thresholds’ stuff or something is it? One in three children being pre diabetic is horrific. T2 used to be almost unheard of in children. Bodes very badly for the future

Obesity is a epidemic, and so is childhood obesity. Not a surprise that it would mean kids developing diabetes.

 

[Brahma]

What the heck? This isn’t some kind of ‘kids have different thresholds’ stuff or something is it? One in three children being pre diabetic is horrific. T2 used to be almost unheard of in children. Bodes very badly for the future

They're massively overweight which is a strange thing not to include in the article honestly

Chatgpt;

"About 38% of U.S. adolescents aged 12–17 years are classified as either overweight or obese. This combines:

Obesity (~22.2%) – BMI ≥ 95th percentile for age/sex (based on CDC NHANES data, 2017–March 2020)

Overweight (~16.1%) – BMI between the 85th–95th percentile (from NHANES 2017–201

So, together, ~38.3% of U.S. teens fall into these two categories."

I'd imagine the two sets to be nearly identical.

Edit:

Also, because I'm tired and it was confusing me how 22% could be in the <95 percentile, I looked it up and apparently they're using a reference group from 90/94 or something.

So 5% of kids composed the 95th or greater percentile back then.

22% of kids now are either at or above the weight of those 5% of kids back then. So a 400% plus increase in obesity in that age bracket

 

[Breadbassket]

Make America Healthy Again.

 

[Unnecessary Surgery Land]

For a while now USA medical schools have talked how rapidly it's increasing in children and how to assess it.

From my own personal experiences as a parent I see either fat kids or really skinny kids in designated childrens spaces. I rarely see healthy weights.

But the parents -- almost all of them-- are fucking whales. I don't just mean a little chubby, I mean orb-shaped fat.

You'll occasionally see a healthy weight parent but that's once in a blue moon.

Maybe I just live in a really fat part of the country but you know it’s a problem when you're shocked to see a parent that's not morbidly obese

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

I wonder if people from a Central American indigenous background are perhaps more prone to becoming diabetic?

Someone should look that up.

 

[Coldgrip]

Let them die. If they can't be assed to get up and move around a bit to save their own lives then we shouldn't have to pay for their medical expenses when they get older and can't function.

 

[Paper Machete]

Nothing will change until we make people feel uncomfortable existing as a disgusting lard ass in public again. A shocking number of people simply are far too comfortable living in awful conditions and need the opinions of others to be their "guard rails" because they hardly ever get there on their own.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Make America Healthy Again.

No, we need to chase memes instead of prohibiting putting corn syrup in everything.

Nothing will change until we make people feel uncomfortable existing as a disgusting lard ass in public again. A shocking number of people simply are far too comfortable living in awful conditions and need the opinions of others to be their "guard rails" because they hardly ever get there on their own.

There was a massive campaign in the last decades against anorexia, but not a single word about obesity, despite being just as deadly.

 

[Neodanthril]

consequences of allowing companies to put sugar and high fructose corn syrup in literally everything. if you want something sugar free or with a reasonable level of sugar for a sweet you have to make it from scratch. it is also the consequences of women entering the workforce. the art of home cooking was completely lost in that shift. recipes from that era are the most disgusting dogshit ever put on a plate. everything made with as many prepackaged processed goods and made as quickly as possible at the cost of edibility and nutrition. i tried a recipe from my wifes church cookbook written by baby boomers for bread pudding that demanded TWO FUCKING CANS of sweetened condensed milk (which is just milk in sugar) but then more sugar on top of that! i might as well have put a sack of sugar on my head like a horses feedsack.

doesnt help that the sugar lobby does everything in their power from allowing public perceptions of sugar consumption to change. this is why lowfat diets sprung up 60 years ago and were the dominating diet fad until the advent of the internet.
then there is the death of third spaces and the child abductor hysteria. better to make your kids be sedentary shut ins than allow them to go outside, though there isnt anywhere to go anyway since the park is full of homeless people jacking off and smoking weed and everything else is a store that will kick you out for loitering. all the woods our parents and grandparents could explore near their homes have been paved over for mcmansion developments and dollar generals.

 

[Audit]

I have a simple solution: bullying. We should give the jocks and reasonably fit nerds carte blanche permission to socially ostracize, ridicule, and physically embarrass the overweight.

 

[Otterly]

About 38% of U.S. adolescents aged 12–17 years are classified as either overweight or obese

This is an horrendous statistic. I look at my school photos (class photos) and none of us are obese. As younger children we are all totally normal or skinny. As we hit the teen years I can see the usual couple of kids who grew out before growing up but none are obese and I’d doubt more than one was even into overweight territory. I’d say looking back maybe less than 5% even overweight, I remember zero obese kids from school. I dont remember people being fat at uni either.
Now everyone’s fat. Not American fat, but that kind of overweight to milder obesity fat. You rarely see thin adults. Seeing fat kids disturbs me. It’s abuse.

 

[vanilla_pepsi_head]

I don't understand why this is even still a problem in this blessed current year where it's piss easy for anyone to illegally purchase massive amounts of semaglutide or tirzepatide from sketchy Chinese pharmaceutical companies over the internet that is literally around 30 times less expensive than if you paid out of pocket for the real deal in the US. No gatekeeping or bullshitting around with Telehealth appointments or insurance company jews, stack drugs or increase the dose whenever you want, who can stop you? Are there potential health risks from recklessly abusing black market Chinese research chemicals? Yeah, fucking probably, but it's hilarious when fat fucks who spend all day stuffing their gob with the worst goyslop out there and sucking on a gas station synthetic marijuana vape act like they are too scared to put crap in their bodies all of a sudden. Shit, if I was a fat motherfucker I'd probably do it, and I'm actually kind of surprised we aren't hearing about older adolescents secretly getting their hands on GLP-1s behind their parents' back. Kids are capable of sneaking illegal tranny hormones and do so all the time, but honestly, if they were abusing knockoff GLP-1s instead rather than having to experience middle or high school as a fat kid, they'd be better off.

Of course, that's a shitty band-aid solution compared to dealing with this properly. That would require parents to not be lazy cunts who shove junk food at their kids to make them shut the fuck up, stick to a healthy diet themselves in order to lead by example and avoid having junk food regularly in the house, and to introduce a variety of foods to their children almost from birth, rather than getting them hooked on "kid food" (i.e. heinous goyslop) from birth and indulging "picky eater" nonsense. It'd also be a good idea to be honest with children that gorging themselves on shitty snacks is what turns you into a fatass. Obviously don't be cruel or harshly critical of their bodies or weight, but kind yet frank discussions about correcting any bad eating habits before they become entrenched is crucial. Lardass parents refuse to do this because they are crab-buckety and have a complex about their own weight, plus a lot of them share this retarded belief that acknowledging the relationship between food intake and body weight or having any rules at all that prevent your kids from free-feeding on garbage will cause the kid to instantly develop severe and life-threatening anorexia. But again, actually doing any of that requires slightly more active parenting than stuffing your kid full of psych medication because you forgot to train them how not to behave like a chimpanzee on crack, putting an iPad in their hand, and chucking some Oreos at them so they don't bother you while you' spend all day on social media because, goddamn it, the world is relying on your regular posts of the same filtered fucking selfie and whatever dogshit political take you've decided to regurgitate today. The sad truth is that most parents can't be fucked and don't see a problem.

If people are really gonna rely on public schools, doctors, and the internet to raise their kids for them, at the very least someone needs to drill it in their head that redditors who are pornsick neet retards with piss-poor hygiene claiming psych problems deserve to be bullied and should not be emulated, schools need to reintroduce mandatory home ec (cut bullshit like drama class or Shakespeare if you have to), and if you're lucky enough to have a doctor that suggests lifestyle improvements alongside the medication inevitably chucked at you, actually fucking listen. Removing unnecessary artificial dyes from Froot Loops and shit is fine but it's just kind of pissing into the wind.

 

[Diana Moon Glampers]

recipes from that era are the most disgusting dogshit ever put on a plate. everything made with as many prepackaged processed goods and made as quickly as possible at the cost of edibility and nutrition. i tried a recipe from my wifes church cookbook written by baby boomers for bread pudding that demanded TWO FUCKING CANS of sweetened condensed milk (which is just milk in sugar) but then more sugar on top of that! i might as well have put a sack of sugar on my head like a horses feedsack.

And yet the boomers and their kids were significantly healthier than the much more educated about nutrition millennials and their kids. Most moms I know today wouldn't let their kids have Kool-Aid or juice or other sugary drinks, pretty much ever, perhaps once in a while as a special treat. Most schools have taken out the soda machines that were popular in the 90s. How is it that kids today are worse off than the generation that had Surge and Jolt available on tap?

 

[the_hidden_one]

Kids are stuck inside gorging on high fructose corn syrup and playing Minecraft or Fortnite with their friends 20 hours a day instead of going outside. It's no surprise that they are all a bunch of fat fucks that will be prescribed ozempic before they get out of high school.

 

[Marvin]

Lol great timing. Just on a whim I watched this old episode of King of the Hill the other day:

Funny how back then Bobby being a fat little kid used to be a funny outlier that could be a joke in a sitcom.

 

[DragoonSierra]

STOP SUBSIDIZING SUGAR.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Funny how back then Bobby being a fat little kid used to be a funny outlier that could be a joke in a sitcom.

I remember when the fat people had their own stores, then there were so many they just closed down all the Big Dogs and DXL stores and added it to the regular stores.

 

[BongoMongo]

Shame is a fantastic motivational tool. Especially in tandem with people who provide a solution. We had a couple of really fat kids on school and while they were both bullied and shamed, as they lost the weight,they also got positive feedback which reinforced the message they were doing the right thing.

I bump into both of them on occasion when I visit home and they're both still slim. One does a lot of running, the other is a physical education teacher.

It's great when the crabs make it out of the bucket. Probably harder to do these days with "body positivity" doing the rounds, as it does.