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Kids' Obesity May Lead to Epidemic of Adult Diabetes - Washington Post- Topic: Childhood Obesity News

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TUESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) — The current childhood obesity epidemic in the United States may lead to large numbers of young adults developing type 2 diabetes in the future, along with serious diabetes-related health complications, warns a University of Michigan researcher. The longer a person has diabetes, the more likely he or she is to develop serious complications such as kidney failure and blindness, Lee noted. That means that young adults with type 2 diabetes are much more likely to develop such complications during their lifetime than older people with the disease. More needs to be done to fight childhood obesity, she urged in an article in the July issue of the journalArchives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine. But it spends very little for the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity to stave off the onset of type 2 diabetes,” Lee said. Read Childhood Obesity

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