Now, yet more evidence that children’s health is in dire need of attention: A new study released today shows that almost a quarter of teens have diabetes or prediabetes.There is a real medical media push on obesity right now. The whole "Weight of the Nation" nonsense and all. And this is the perverse strategy: they are actually using their own disastrous results to expand the number of patients recommended for testing, drugs and surgery. I need a shorthand method for the future to denote all these articles as- Same Crap, Different Day.
That’s up from 9 percent a decade ago, according to a study in the June 2012 issue of Pediatrics, published online today.
SSDD, okay?