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.

 

[Megaton Punch]

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.

England (and in fact much of the first world) has only been maybe ten years behind America in obesity levels for decades. Americans got called fat in 1990, then in 2000 we got called fat by people who were as fat as we used to be in 1990. So much of Europe has been so preoccupied with "look, America is fatter than we are!" for so long that they haven't noticed that every developed country in the world is getting fatter. Even places like Japan have begun The Porkening despite walking everywhere.

 

[eDove]

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

Someone should look that up.

They are. I have quite a bit of confirmed injun in me and I was/am prediabetic without ever being obese. Sugar is still a fairly new addition to their diets in the grand scheme of things, hence why they can't handle it the same way.

American food is, shamefully, LOADED with sugar, even in places you'd least suspect it. Some of these kids aren't eating too much, it's just that there's too much sugar in everything.

Advertising is horribly deceptive too, tricking less knowledgable people into thinking they're buying healthier alternatives. Parents think that no-sugar-added juice is okay/healthy for their kids to drink when it's full of natural sugars. They don't check the labels for garbage like aspartame either 'cause that sort of info is suppressed. Most yogurts marketed toward kids are fake. Etc. Etc.

 

[The best and greatest]

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.

Nah fuck that. When a third of your country's youth population is obese or overweight the national concern supersedes your individual wants for coke and hot pockets.

Learn to cook fatties

 

[Apustajan apustaja]

They snack because they are easily bored and safety culture has made them sedentary, even if fat kids are harder and less desirable to kidnap.

 

[The-Mad-Asshatter]

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

British Big Boned Big Backs!

 

[Otterly]

South Asians are fatter as well. Although frankly the white natives are also fat. We really need to have a health drive.
Veg is cheapish, but to feed a family you do need to know some cooking basics. We really need home ec back in schools, as part of an integrated ‘how to get through life’ kind of thing. And yes I know that’s the job of the parents but clearly enough are failing it needs putting back into schools. Have a few biology classes talking about health and diet, get then to plan a weeks worth of food for a family, and work up a budget and you can teach them about bills and budgeting and prepping food as well.
We are failing our kids. I was in the supermarket yesterday (the big one in a poorer bit of an English town, outside of my rural bubble) everyone looks so broken down. Everyone’s overweight, out of shape, covered in tatts. Everyone looks sick, and dysgenic. It was genuinely disturbing. I saw maybe two or three slim young people, quite a few slim elderly, but the elderly looked better than the younger ones.
Everyone looked like they’d just been let out the mines for half an hour, it was heartbreaking.

 

[I Hate The Disabled]

I stayed in South Korea for a month, and ate a lot, but still lost 15 pounds. The shit they put in our food makes us fatter.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

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.

Fair point.

 

[Clotso Coof]

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.

I've noticed that too. I suspect processed food hits individual children much differently, since you'll sometimes have two fatties and one normal kid in the same household eating the same trashy food.

CICO, true, but hunger cues can get out of wack on diets with too much sugar and processed carbs. Some kids can eat almost endless pizza while their brother eats two pieces and walks away.

I look at my school photos (class photos) and none of us are obese.

If you look up a picture of the fat girl from your high school, she's probably merely chunky by today's standards. Watch a movie from the 80s or 90s where a character is the comic relief fat kid. They look mostly normal today. It's disturbing.

I hate myself for writing this: Boomers might be right about their childhoods being healthier. Typically they ate three meals a day, no snacking, and their mothers kicked them out of the house to play until dinner. Dessert was occasional and restaurant meals were uncommon.

 

[Otterly]

I hate myself for writing this: Boomers might be right about their childhoods being healthier.

No I think you’re right. Purely diet based, the way people ate and moved was healthier. I’m middle gen x and my diet as a child and how we ate (no snacks routinely) was far healthier. We were outside all day and walked or biked most places.
Very early boomers also had rationing to deal with as well. Even when that was lifted, food was still restricted.

 

[John Furrman]

This isn’t s crisis, it’s evolution happening in real time.

 

[No-Eyed Square Guy]

Even places like Japan have begun The Porkening despite walking everywhere.

They made a great leap fatward at the turn of the century. I lived there then and didn't notice people getting fat, but the traditional "mizuame"-based candies I liked suddenly all had corn syrup in them. Some corrupt trade deal with America probably did it. Nowadays their goyslop is as bad as ours (though their American fast food is superior, more like the McDonalds and KFC that oldfags remember).

 

[Day of the Cope]

Can we finally admit that years of "clean your plate" mentality only caused rampant eating disorders among American and that the food that Americans consume are possibly bad to eat?

 

[Paper Machete]

Can we finally admit that years of "clean your plate" mentality only caused rampant eating disorders among American and that the food that Americans consume are possibly bad to eat?

It's because:
1. People don't move around enough.
2. People eat too much trash as snacks (and also the usual suspects have trash food subsidized by EBT and SNAP).
3. We don't heckle fatties enough.

The first thing you see when you go into a grocery store is the fresh produce and there are healthier snack options available and no sugar fizzy drinks available. In the last few years alternative options to actively detrimental snack foods has exploded.

Certainly there's a lot of shit in a lot of different foods and some people don't handle that stuff well at all. But it's also lifestyle choices first and foremost.

 

[Hitman One]

Amerisubhumans are fat, retarded niggers. This doesn't qualify as news.

 

[Lady Bizness]

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.

I agree. I drew the short straw on taking the kids to the pool this summer. The number of people completely unabashed to clad their disgusting gunts in "sexy" bathing suits is mind blowing. It's attached to a pricey health club on top of that. And here I am, decently fit, yet embarrassed to wear the current trends. Last weekend this one lady could barely keep her fat plucked chicken vulva in her suit and don't even get me started on the rear end view. And around kids!
But yes, bring shame back!

 

[Frostnipped Todger]

This is why I make fun of adults who drink soda.
The only excuse for drinking a sofa after the age of 16 is a crushing hangover, and that requires a cane sugar based coca cola.

 

[Rich Evans Simp]

I know I’ve banged this drum before, but you don’t have to have a diet of fresh produce and lean meats to be thin. I’m not sure why you’re all blaming the prevalence of convenience and junk foods. The average family 20/30/40 years ago was not subsisting on kale and quinoa. Working families can eat what we used to consider normal meals - casseroles, pot roasts, spaghetti, hamburgers - and not be fat. It’s portions and snacking that are out of control.

 

[Whiskey]

I know I’ve banged this drum before, but you don’t have to have a diet of fresh produce and lean meats to be thin. I’m not sure why you’re all blaming the prevalence of convenience and junk foods. The average family 20/30/40 years ago was not subsisting on kale and quinoa. Working families can eat what we used to consider normal meals - casseroles, pot roasts, spaghetti, hamburgers - and not be fat. It’s portions and snacking that are out of control.

Agreed it's why I never understood why vending machines were a thing they brought into schools. I was there the year they installed them and everyone acted like it was a great thing when it was packs and chips and chocolate bars priced for what getting a dozen would cost in the store across the street.

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

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

They need to start prosecuting parents for these 4-5-6-7 year olds that weigh in the “obesity”/“morbid obesity”/“super morbid obesity” category.

It’s absolutely disgusting that they’ll take your kids away for not changing their gender with drugs, have threatened/considered taking away your kids for wrongthink (“racism”), but will look at a fucking 250 pound/113kg 7 year old and not do shit.

That’s abuse. That’s neglect. You’re actively killing a literal child and they’re more worried about hormone shots for 12-13 year olds.

No, Kayla, little jr. isn’t “precocious”, “big boned”, or have “baby weight”. He will not “grow into it” you fat bitch. You’re feeding him to death.

Good lord.