Diabetes is a disease caused by the way the body metabolizes
sugar. The disease can be controlled by medication and
modifications to one's diet. What is alarming however, are
the increasing number of cases of diabetes among teenagers
and children.

With the surge in obesity and overweight children, it should
come as no surprise that diabetes is also growing in
proportion. Children are less active than they have been in
the past, and this is leading to health problems.

Inactivity leads to Obesity

When the body is overweight, it can not handle the everyday
stresses as well as it could. And when the body is smaller
to begin with (as it is in children), these effects are
magnified.

These extra pounds come from a life of physical inactivity
in children, too much time sitting at the computer and at
meals is taking its toll in increased weight. Children's
bodies, already hampered by excess weight, have no way,
therefore, to cope with their diets, rich in fat and sugar.
Very simply put, the body cannot metabolize, or burn, these
high levels of fat and sugar, causing an imbalance that
leads to diabetes in so many children.

You are what you eat

We live in a highly processed and sugared society where life
doesn't stop for home-cooked dinners and brown bag lunches.
We live on easy to cook and carry food items that include
more fat and sugar than the fruits and vegetables of our
past diets.

Our bodies can normally adapt to stress within limits but
when there is a constant bombardment of unhealthy foods, the
liver and pancreas cannot keep pace and end up
malfunctioning or even getting damaged.

Would you really want to damage something so inherently part
of your nature?

And while it's easy to blame the child for the health
problems and poor food choices, there is a lot to be said
for the family that surrounds them. If the children are
predisposed to an environment that doesn't support healthy
living, then there is a greater tendency for diabetes and
other health
problems.

At the end of the day, everyone in the family needs to pull
together as one team on the same side -- the side that keeps
illnesses like diabetes and other unhealthy issues at bay.

Healthy CAN be exciting! Working out is great when everyone
in the family does it together. And if you get every single
person at home working on finding new ways to prepare
nutritious, healthy and mouth-watering meals, you will be
surprised at how enthused they get, they'lwill want to
contribute to their health!


Martin Grandley runs the website Diabetes Firm
which a site dedicated to diabetes issues and contains
all the very latest news and views diabetes related.
Please visit http://www.diabetesfirm.com if you have any questions or comments concerning this article.

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