Eating out linked to health risks in children

The Seattle Times ^ | November 15, 2005 | John Fauber

[Ditter]

You are right, shopping for food, cooking and cleaning up are huge chores. Eating out is the answer for parents who don't want to bother. If these same parents fed their children at home no telling what kind of pre prepared junk it would be. I just came from Sam's and the frozen food cases are full of civilian MRI's. 75% of them contain high fructose corn syrup.

[neverdem]

Horse Crap... Diabetes is an infectious disease...

An infectious etiology is suspected in Diabetes Mellitus Type 1, aka Juvenile Diabetes. These folks are almost invariably never overweight.

The most common form of diabetes is type 2 diabetes. About 90 to 95 percent of people with diabetes have type 2. This form of diabetes is associated with older age, obesity, family history of diabetes, previous history of gestational diabetes, physical inactivity, and ethnicity. About 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight.

Type 2 diabetes is increasingly being diagnosed in children and adolescents. (It's called Maturity Onset Diabetes of the Young, aka MODY.) However, nationally representative data on prevalence of type 2 diabetes in youth are not available. (They're invariably obese.)

When type 2 diabetes is diagnosed, the pancreas is usually producing enough insulin, but for unknown reasons, the body cannot use the insulin effectively, a condition called insulin resistance. After several years, insulin production decreases.

Diabetes Overview

[Marie]

Couldn't help but wonder...how did "eating at Burger King 5 days a week" cause your daughter to be born?

I lost 30 pounds in 4 months (after my daughter was born) by eating at Burger King 5 days a week.

Is that better, Smartypants? ;-)

[ThirstyMan]

I lost 30 pounds in 4 months (after my daughter was born) by eating at Burger King 5 days a week.
Is that better, Smartypants? ;-)

Ha ha! yeah, that's better. : D)