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Once considered rare, mitochondrial diseases are now thought to affect as many as one person in 5,000. New research in this area hopes to open up more opportunities for predicting a child's risk of developing a mitochondrial disease which can cause muscle weakness, diabetes, strokes, heart failure and epilepsy.
Want to help your child avoid the many heath risks associated with diabetes? Then teach him or her to spot, and steer clear of, so-called simple sugars. A study by experts at the University of Southern California found a strong connection between the amount of sugar kids ate and whether or not they showed the first signs of type 2 diabetes.
The American Health Association is concerned about the epidemic of childhood obesity, as reported by the USA TODAY. Studies highlight the risks of an obese life-style including potential heart disease, type 2 diabetes, liver malfunction and worst of all, a shortened life-span. Important reading, especially for parents who want healthy children.
Having diabetes does not mean a lifelong diet of deprivation for your child.Diabetic diet is not a matter of avoidance;it refers instead to consuming a healthy and well-balanced diet to maintain blood sugar in the normal range to actually prevent diabetes-related complications.
A description of a day in a life of a child with type I diabetes.
Child diabetic recipe
