Today, many are asking what is the cause of type 2 diabetes in children? Type 2 diabetes is epidemic in our youth today. The reasons they get diabetes is similar to why adults get diabetes.

Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult onset diabetes. No more. Today it is called type 2 diabetes because children are affected as much as older adults. There is even a new double diabetes in children where they get both type 1 and type 2 diabetes at the same time.

Many of our children today are overweight or obese. There are several reasons for this:

-Lack of exercise
-Poor diet at home without the veggies and fruits they need.
-Poor diet at school - Are schools do not provide healthy lunches like 40 years ago.
-Too many sodas and high fructose corn syrups in juices and foods
-Working parents and single moms unable to provide proper nutrition
-Eating at fast food restaurants and junk food for snacks
-Lack of exercise with computers, video games and television use instead
-TV food ads promote poor quality foods with additives and little nutrition.

All of these factors combined add up to a compression of time in which a child's system becomes toxic and unable to function properly. Solutions are:

-Better supervision of snacks.
-Do not buy junk food.
-Cut down meals out at fast food chains.
-Spend time to learn how to buy and prepare nutritious meals free of additives.
-Supplement their diets with omega 3 essential fatty acids
-Turn off TV, video games and computers and get kids playing outside daily.
-Cut all sodas and most commercial juices from their diet.
-Buy no food or drink with high fructose corn syrup in it.
-Check school menus and pack a lunch if food at school in not acceptable.

With proper planning and supervision your child can escape being overweight and becoming a type 2 diabetic.

Darryl Van Kirk has been self employed the majority of his life and working from home 10 of the last 12 years. Visit Darryl's new web site based on his experience as a diabetic Cause and Cure for Type 2 Diabetes.


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