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Anecdotally, my sister's kid just got diagnosed with it. He is not overweight whatsoever, but they put frickin' ketchup on everything. But, yea the majority might be overweight, but anyone that eats just carbs could get it.

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What about exercise though? I think a lot of people discount exercise because no one exercises enough to take off the correlating weight, but any kid who doesn't ever hit aerobic exercise must have correlated cardiac risks and any kid who never walks distances probably has risks of odd insulin and inflammation issues. When I was a kid, kids of all weights seemed to eat only processed garbage, and most parents were oblivious or thought it wasn't worth the strife, but exercise was unavoidable. Today, I notice walking strongly reduces my appetite.

Exercise is very important in many ways, it helps a great deal with metabolism long term, burns calories and has positive effects on both kinds of diabetes. It doesn't even have to be intense , just a daily walk is better than nothing.

With T2 ? Or with T1 ?

T2. He is only like 11 years old. So I think he was exercising enough, in terms of he plays a bunch of sports.

Looking at how the maps in the article are roughly the opposite of urban, I was a little hesitant to bring up the diesel particulate theory, but the maps actually could correspond to average amount of time in a vehicle..

If there is some kind of direct damage occuring to hormonal systems then it doesn't really have to correlate to weight and exercise related T2.

The roads of my childhood were definitely included higher polluting diesel trucks, but kids and pregnant women did spend a lot less time traveling and usually didn't ride in diesel vehicles themselves, there was that fine leaded gas..

That is unusually young for T2, the diagnosis might well change to T1.

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