Today is World Diabetes Day, a day to raise International awareness of a disease that doesn't need to even exist, but is growing to epidemic proportions.
According to WHO, more than 346 million people worldwide have diabetes.
There are also new recommendations just released by a government panel of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics. They recommend that every child be checked for high cholesterol between the ages of 9 and 11, and again between the ages of 17 and 21, as atherosclerosis begins very early in life.
The panel also suggests diabetes screening every 2 years starting as early as age 9 for kids who are overweight and have other risk factors, including family history.
I don't believe anyone is recommending that kids with high cholesterols be started on statin drugs, but instead with early awareness of the problem, to begin to make lifestyle changes. It is much easier to make changes at an early age.
"Heart disease is a food-bourne illness." CNN, "The Last Heart Attack."
Looking together in the same direction.
Sea otters hold hands while they sleep so they don't drift apart.
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