USA TODAY: Diabetes and pre-diabetes have skyrocketed among the nation’s young people, jumping from 9% of the adolescent population in 2000 to 23% in 2008, a study reports today.
The findings, reported in the journal Pediatrics, are “very concerning,” says lead author Ashleigh May, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“To get ahead of this problem, we have to be incredibly aggressive and look at children and adolescents and say you have to make time for physical activity,” says pediatric endocrinologist Larry Deeb, former president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association… (more)
EDITOR: Yet we cut the budget for high school gym and sports and Millersville U eliminates its track program, thanks largely to Gov. Tom Corbett and his cozy deals with major campaign contributors such as the Marcellus Shale crowd.
