More Young People and Teens Getting Diabetes

hilfe

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I am writing this from my heart, to remind fellow moms here, who are like me, never had the chance to think about our children's health and their diet.

I have recently met with a nutritionist who shed a light on the reality of our Singaporean health. It really got me thinking now to be more careful about my diet and also to seriously be more selective of what to feed my children.

The reason for this phenomena is plain outright. Yet, we are always forgetting it.

What people in their 40s would suffer, teens are now already starting to experience it e.g. diabetes.

Here is an excerpt from NHG.com.sg

**So young, yet hit by diabetes? It’s a rising trend that’s worrying
health professionals. Drawing attention to the rapid rise of diabetes
in Asia, the World Diabetes Foundation recently noted, with alarm,
that children and younger people are now suffering from the
disease traditionally associated with older people.
“Although there are no published fi gures in Singapore on the
exact number of youths with diabetes, doctors have noted a trend
with younger people, and this is often related to obesity and poor
lifestyle,” says Assoc Prof Sum Chee Fang, Senior Consultant at
Alexandra Hospital’s Department of Medicine. “Our modern society
and affl uence have contributed much to how younger people live
today, especially with the easy availability of unhealthy foods and
other bad habits.” **

Excerpt from NHG.com.sg

Simply put, our generation now are consuming more and more processed foods and fast foods than ever before. We forgot the wholesome foods, the grains and the vegetable.

We forgot that we are exposed to a tremendous amount of pollution and radiation from our gadgets - that our grandparents and great grandparents did not experience.

read more on http://talkaboutibs.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/younger-diabetic-complications-and-the-bleak-singaporean-childrens-health/
 

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