This is HORRIFYING! DIABETES and TODDLERS!!!

May 21, 2003

MUST pass this on from the wonderful Dr. Mercola's newsletter. WHEN will parents get the idea that all the soda, cereal, snack food, white bread, cookies, candies, cakes, ice cream, etc., they are pouring down their little children's mouths are KILLING THEM???

PARENTS: please read this and pass on to OTHER parents!!! This is a nightmare!

Linda Yates

More than 60 percent of Americans are overweight or obese. Many U.S. toddlers are also obese and are even showing signs of diabetes and other diseases associated with obesity, according to researchers.

Moreover, when obese children were sent to specialists they still did not achieve healthier weights.

Researchers examined the medical records of 385 children, most of whom were already obese, defined as being in the 85th percentile for weight. The children were seen by endocrinologists, or hormone specialists, between 1984 and 2002.

Although the parents were educated on proper diet and exercise for their children as well as advised to meet with a dietician, after two years the children weighed, on average, even more than before.

According to researchers, it is clear that referral to pediatric endocrinologists and dieticians is not effective in treating childhood obesity. Instead, they suggest a weight-loss program that includes the children, parents and the school system.

The children in the study, some as young as 4 years old, also had high insulin levels, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, and 13 percent of 147 children tested had abnormal liver function tests, according to researchers. Such tests indicate a common condition with obesity known as fatty liver, which can lead to cirrhosis.

People who are obese or overweight have an increased risk of diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers.

Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in Seattle May 4, 2003

DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

It is no surprise that dieticians and their physician mentors, pediatric endocrinologists, are no help at all in treating obese children and toddlers.

But don’t you find this unusual?

Shouldn’t these “experts” have some effective strategy to help resolve an epidemic that is affecting two-thirds of the U.S. population?

It is tragic that these highly trained medical professionals are absolutely clueless in providing any substantive help to this critical challenge that is devastating the health of our country.

However, even though the “experts” don’t know of the solution, there are effective strategies you can use to solve this problem.

In fact, I wrote an entire book about it. The No-Grain Diet is not only the answer to the weight loss epidemic but it provides a strategy to optimize the health of everyone in your family.

One of the best gifts that you can provide for any heavy relatives or immediate family members is The No-Grain Diet book.

For less than the cost of a meal at a nice restaurant they can have a complete package that is designed to help with the details on how to adjust their diet and obtain the emotional support to stick with it.