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.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

And how many of them are white?

 

[frozen_runner]

When I was in elementary school, we had two girls in our class who were "the fat girls," and they were merely chubby and built differently than other girls. I don't remember any fat boys in my class.

It's insane how fucking fat people have gotten over the past few decades. And the worst part is the attempt to "normalize" it. The average man or woman is quite attractive if they're a healthy weight and build, but now you have landwhales who make being a fatbody their identity.

 

[The-Mad-Asshatter]

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.

That's the other half of this problem. Too much inactivity and encouraging too much screen time. When you spend hours all day staring at a screen at school, you become tired and mentally drained, then you don't want to do anything but stare at more screens (computer games, Ipad and phone screens) to 'relax.'

They don't want to play because they're too tired mentally.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

There were maybe 2 or 3 fat kids my my class when I was in elementary and middle school, but they slimmed down by high school. I think a lot of it has to do with parents not letting their kids out to play all day. Part of me doesn't blame them since parents get the police called on them if a Karen spots their kids riding bikes around the block. Another reason is that schools don't really have recess anymore. When I grew up (the 90s to the early 00s) we had an hour a day dedicated just to recess.

 

[The Mighty Banth]

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?

Nothing fun to do outside, especially compared to inside. As some one said above, not a lot of places for kids to hang outside, those places that exist are ruined by the homeless, and everything else costs money. In my personal experience growing up, parents also didn't want their kids to go outside so playing all day with the neighborhood kids doesn't exist like it used too. Add into the fact that fewer people have kids and the ones they do are often micro managed in activities in all their free time and schools consuming what little extra time they have with hours of useless homework.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

Fat people are pervasive in the US. If you lose weight you especially notice it. Suddenly they're everywhere, "I see fat people" like on The Sixth Sense.

Most people seem to be fat. Ozempic is a temporary solution that will cause long term dependence and side effects.

The only way around it is for people to lose weight by diet and exercise and for that to happen, they need to be educated about how bad the health consequences of being over are, and how bad the food is we eat. We don't even have to ban bad chemicals and sweeteners in food, just label them like cigarettes and if consumers stop buying crap, food makers will stop making crap.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

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

You know that’s not true. Fearmongering about obesity (particularly connected to fast food, especially advertising to children) used to be everywhere. Initiatives to teach children nutrition or strip junk food out of cafeterias were common. Red Staters got pissy that Michele Obama wanted to take away goyslop (nutrition/dieting was faggy). Every cartoon had a Very Special Episode about how you would become a bloated land whale in a day if you ate a candy bar and then lose it all if you ate a broccoli.

The fat acceptance head of the Leftist hydra didn’t take over until a few years ago.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

And how many of them are white?

Too many if all the death fats in the beauty parlor is any indication.

 

[Sailor Kim Jong Moon]

CICO works. Yet all my death fat friends will protest that weight loss is SO complicated! Then they start talking about a bunch of random nutrition related talking points.

Meanwhile, I’m like - look at yourself. I’m a healthy weight. You’re pushing 350 pounds. I am telling you - calorie in, calorie out.

Do you know how many death fats have lectured me on weight loss when I mention CICO? A lot. It’s like they want weight loss to be a mystical, complicated process to excuse their failure.

 

[Pure Soap]

And how many of them are white?

Obligatory meme

 

[Megaton Punch]

Now everyone’s fat. Not American fat, but that kind of overweight to milder obesity fat.

The average BMI in England is only 2 points lower than America. You'd best start believing in Ham Planets, Miss Otterly...you're on one!

 

[ZazietheBeast]

No fucking shit. On top of these kids being barely taught anything in schools besides compliance and the current year message, they are fed sugary shit all the damn time. I get it. Sugar tastes great. Until you're now a walking pile of lard with an addiction to that sugary drink.

The crappy part about this, HFCS drinks are so cheap and common that trying to get away from them is difficult for an addict. Its also important to note that HFCS drinks (and snacks) are everywhere here in Burgerville. So many Burgers don't even realize they're being poisoned by their favorite snack. The silver lining in all of this is at least they list the ingredient so you're not stuck playing minesweeper with your health.

Factor in that Big Food and Big Pharma are buddy buddy... there is a real fatass to medical pipeline that is going on here as well....

 

[Otterly]

The average BMI in England is only 2 points lower than America. You'd best start believing in Ham Planets, Miss Otterly...you're on one!

Really? I’m appalled. That’s not a metric we need to catch up on.

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

Really? I’m appalled. That’s not a metric we need to catch up on.

Yes you do. We need more Brit representation in Death Fats! Make 1000lb Sisters: UK edition!

 

[Otterly]

So two BMI points that’s what, like 10-15lb ish perhaps?
That’s really not good. Love you Americans but you’re a bunch of fat bastards, and seems we are headed the same way.

 

[Sister Miriam Godwinson]

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.

Yes, well, have you seen the contents of the store shelves in the last X years? It's all sugar, oil, flour, fat and salt in pretty packaging. The only place where you can find more-or-less non-harmful food is the fresh produce aisle, and from what I hear the number of people who cook for themselves from basic ingredients in the US is not that high, and even those who do make no effort to curb the calories.

You are what you eat, and humans enjoy most what kills them, i. e. fast carbs, fat and sugar. I imagine that back when you went to school there was way less deep-fried stuff around and people actually ate celery.

 

[Jace on ice]

The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is we're now only 40% non Hispanic white down from 87% in 1990.

Blacks and spics are fat as fuck.

 

[Otterly]

Yes, well, have you seen the contents of the store shelves in the last X years? It's all sugar, oil, flour, fat and salt in pretty packaging.

Yeah it is. There’s whole aisles I never even go down. Don’t get me wrong, we eat pudding, generally home made though. Ice cream in the summer, we are not at all one of those zero sugar households. But that kind of ultra mucked about with crap is not on the menu.
Our school dinners were awful. Truly hideous. So much spam. Spam fritters, the cheapest sausages known to humanity. The sort of burgers that would make John Gummer balk. We used to take packed lunches, it was inedible. But at home we ate proper meals, done from scratch, and we just didn’t snack
. I think how we eat (constant snacking) makes a difference too. I remember big hearty meals as a kid but everyone was slim. Fat people were an anomaly. There might have been the odd pack of biscuits in the house, but generally, no snack foods at all. No snacking, no food after dinner, plenty of food, but home made. Half the stuff in the supermarket is literal poison, you’re right,

 

[Blewberry Nausea]

The elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss is we're now only 40% non Hispanic white down from 87% in 1990.

Blacks and spics are fat as fuck.

In the United States, obesity rates vary significantly across racial and ethnic groups. Non-Hispanic Black adults generally have the highest prevalence of obesity, followed by Hispanic adults, then non-Hispanic White adults, and lastly, non-Hispanic Asian adults. For example, in 2017-March 2020, non-Hispanic Black adults had an obesity prevalence of 49.9%, while non-Hispanic White adults had a prevalence of 41.4%

That’s still pretty abysmal my dude.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

You know that’s not true. Fearmongering about obesity (particularly connected to fast food, especially advertising to children) used to be everywhere. Initiatives to teach children nutrition or strip junk food out of cafeterias were common. Red Staters got pissy that Michele Obama wanted to take away goyslop (nutrition/dieting was faggy). Every cartoon had a Very Special Episode about how you would become a bloated land whale in a day if you ate a candy bar and then lose it all if you ate a broccoli.

The fat acceptance head of the Leftist hydra didn’t take over until a few years ago.

It was mainly relegated to fast food rather than diet in general. It was a convenient strawman that removes responsibility from the parents.

However Anorexia was way more visceral and direct, with a lot of shows having it as a big episode.