Type II diabetes no longer just an adult disease.
We keep hearing that our kids--the TV and junk food generation--are increasingly overweight. Now come two studies that show these obese teens are being diagnosed with Type II diabetes, a disease rarely seen in people under 40 just 10 years ago. Find out why diabetes experts think the disease is spreading to children, and what you can do about it.
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