Childhood Diabetes: Kids Face Lifetime of Illness

In an editorial accompanying the study, Dr. David Allen of the University of Wisconsin in Madison said today?s children are “immersed from a young age in a sedentary, calorie-laden environment that may well have induced and now aggravates their type 2 diabetes? Indeed, this is the essential maddening conundrum of the epidemic of type 2 diabetes ? collective failure to adhere to a lifestyle healthy enough to prevent the disease.”