The New York Times has a great article on how diabetes (both Type 1 and 2) are on the rise in New York: "Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis"
The article warns about the many problems that people face with diabetes, and how more and more children are developing Type 2 diabetes (previously thought to only affect "older" people). It seems that the disease can also be inherited, which is worrying, since a cousin on my father's side has Type 1, and an aunt on my mother's side has Type 2.
Diabetes is unfortunally a growing problem all around the world. The children in the UK are becoming obese at an alarming rate right now. If this continues they could develop all kind of health problems especially diabetes at a very young age. Once when you are diagnosed as diabetes you need to restrict what you eat,may need regular injections all kind of associated mediacl problems including high blood pressure, eye sight, kidney and liver failure and the list goes on. My father was diagnosed as diabetic but he chose to ignore the problem thinking it would go away but it never did. The end result was he ended up having a stroke. So please any one reading this please take it seriously.