The oncoming military draft (diabetes-related)
I heard Katie Couric say this morning that by 2050, 1 in 3 Americans will be diabetic. I thought about all the right wingers who luv-luv-luv their corporate food-processing guys and their military, and of how they are in for a huge shock when THEIR sons/grandsons/nephews may end up getting drafted when the supply of eager-to-serve "lessers" cannot join because they are obese and or diabetic, and are rejected by the military.
The same goes for many of our necessary workers like police, firefighters, EMTs, rtc. These jobs REQUIRE fitness and workers often have to pass strict physicals.
The poorest among us are often the ones who suffer the most because of the shitty diets they have from childhood to ..well forever..
Our military will not just disband because they cannot find enough people.. There may HAVE to be a draft just to make the numbers. The youngsters raised on good quality foods (and who are lean & mean) may just end up being in the service of our country.
It might behoove our legislators to look beyond their own 2 year./6 year terms, and to start really thinking about how their legislation now, may end up taking the lives of their grandchildren's children.
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY 4:03 p.m. EDT May 3, 2014
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/03/diabetes-rises-in-kids/8604213/
The prevalence of diabetes in children shot up dramatically between 2000 and 2009, a new study shows.
The amount of type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, climbed 21% from 2000 to 2009, to 1.93 per 1,000 children. The prevalence of type 2 diabetes — which is associated with obesity — jumped more than 30% in the same period, to a rate of 0.46 per 1,000 kids, according to a study presented Saturday at the Pediatric Academic Societies' meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
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"These increases are serious," Dabelea says. "Every new case means a lifetime burden of difficult and costly treatment and higher risk of early, serious complications." The new study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, is the most comprehensive available, said David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital, who was not involved in the study. The research, called the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, included 3 million children and adolescents in different regions of the USA.
Researchers acknowledge that the study doesn't include information from the last five years. "We don't know what happened in the last five years," Ludwig says. "Most likely, things have gotten worse."
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In the past, type 2 diabetes was considered a disease of middle or old age, developing in overweight or obese adults, Ludwig says. The fact that kids are developing this disease so young shows the seriousness of the country's obesity crisis, he says. The increase in type 2 diabetes appears to be driven by increasing rates of obesity, lack of exercise and low-quality diets, Ludwig says. Scientists are less sure about the reasons for increasing rates of type 1 diabetes. But some evidence suggests that it may be related to changes in the microbiome — the collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on the body, especially in the digestive tract, Ludwig says.
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Neither of us can figure out why he got it.. 
it is so hard to see those we care about suffer with diabetes... I have seen friends and family die, lose legs and more from the scourge of diabetes...
I am all too aware that changing diet and habits is near impossible for some... it is a matter of life or death though
processed food (including sugar) is so destructive and I am livid we collectively as a country cannot bring ourselves to regulate the food industry
