If you and/or others in your family have type 2 diabetes, you might be worried about your children being diagnosed.
An epidemic of obesity in children and teenagers has swept the country, and type 2 diabetes is being diagnosed in people at younger ages. Many studies show a high level of impaired glucose tolerance and high fat levels in the blood of obese children.

Since impaired glucose tolerance is a condition that leads to type 2 diabetes, you should have your child tested if you're worried.

In the meantime, the best way to keep your child’s weight in a healthy range is to set an example of nutritious eating and exercise. Here are some ideas:

• Swap out unhealthy meals and snacks for healthier versions – decrease the fat and sugars and increase the fruit and vegetables.

• Plan active family adventures, such as riding bicycles, hiking, skating or swimming.

• Set family goals, awarding non-food prizes (such as an outing at a favorite place or park) for accomplishing group goals.

• Walk together wherever you can – to the park, practice, school, friends’ homes.

If you make these changes and your child still has trouble staying within a healthy weight range, the ADA recommends that you see a specialist for help.

It’s official that tea is good for your health. So go ahead and relish that hot cup of green tea to realize its power and enjoy its numerous health benefits.
Helps you lose weight

If you want to cut those extra inches around your tummy, switching to green tea could be a simpler way. A new study shows that green tea extract increases the rate of calorie burning by the body. It reduces blood fat, cholesterol, bloated ness, detoxifies the body and suppresses untimely food cravings. Enabled with diuretic properties, it also eliminates excess water and thereby reduces excess weight. So the best way to get rid of that paunch is to have green tea along with the right amount of bodily exercise.

Boosts exercise endurance

According to scientists, antioxidants present in green tea extracts increase body’s ability to burn fat as fuel which accounts for improved muscle endurance. It also enhances energy levels and boosts your metabolism.

Reduces the risk of heart attack

Drinking green tea rapidly improves the health of body cells lining the blood vessels and also helps in lowering one`s risk for heart disease.The flavonoids present in this tea protect the heart by relaxing the blood vessels so blood can flow more easily.So,protect your heart and have green tea on a regular basis.

Fights against various cancers

The antioxidants in tea helps protect against a shipload of cancers, including breast, colon, colorectal, skin, lung, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, pancreas, liver, ovarian, prostate and oral cancers. Green tea extract is reported to induce cancer cell death and starve tumours by curbing the growth of new blood vessels that feed them.

Hydration benefits

If you love drinking green tea then there is good news for you.Contrary to common belief that tea dehydrates,green tea provides hydration benefits similar to water.Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, it also has many other health benefits.

Protection from harmful ultraviolet rays

The sun’s UV rays in summer act as a constant threat. Green tea is rich in antioxidants that scavenge harmful free radicals in the body according to researches. Also using green tea extracts along with your sunscreen could afford you the greatest level of sun protection.

Keeps Diabetes in check

Green tea can do wonders to a person suffering from diabetes.Green tea apparently helps regulate glucose levels slowing the rise of blood sugar. It also triggers and stimulates insulin production and activates the functioning of pancreas to some extent.Blood sugar level in the body is also normalized and regularized by the use of green tea.

Prevention and treatment of neurological diseases

Polyphenols in green tea may help maintain the parts of brain that regulate learning and memory. So, regular consumption of green tea could help in prevention of degenerative and neurological diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson`s.

Anti- Ageing benefits

Antioxidants found in green tea fight free radicals thereby keeping a check on ageing and promoting longevity.Because it contains high levels of oligomeric proanthocyanidins one of the most powerful antioxidants, Green Tea is thought to help slow down the premature ageing process.

Boosts your immunity

Polyphenols and Flavonoids present in green tea boost the immune system to make the human body stronger in fighting various infections. Also, Vitamin C present in green tea keeps cold and flu away.

Extending sleep duration may help to reduce diabetes risk in youth, increasing the amount of sleep that teenagers get could improve their insulin resistance and prevent the future onset of diabetes.


“High levels of insulin resistance can lead to the development of diabetes. If teens that normally get six hours of sleep per night get one extra hour of sleep, they would improve insulin resistance by 9 per cent,”

The study tracked the sleep duration and insulin resistance levels of 245 healthy high school students.

Participants provided a fasting blood draw, and they kept a sleep log and wore a wrist actigraph for one week during the school year.

Sleep duration based on actigraphy averaged 6.4 hours over the week, with school days significantly lower than weekends. Results showed that higher insulin resistance is associated with shorter sleep duration independent of race, age, gender, waist circumference, and body mass index.

Interventions to promote metabolic health in adolescence should include efforts to extend nightly sleep duration.

In a study, researchers have found that bariatric surgery reduces the long-term risk of developing diabetes by over 80 percent among people with obesity.

Conducted by Professor Lars Sjostrom, Professor Lena Carlsson and their team at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, the study observed that bariatric surgery is considerably more effective than traditional care and lifestyle changes in preventing diabetes among people with obesity.

The treatment group consisted of 1,658 subjects who had undergone bariatric surgery, while the control group consisted of 1,771 equally obese people who had received traditional care. During 15-year follow-up, 392 people in the control group and only 110 people in the treatment group developed diabetes.

“Our results show that bariatric surgery can reduce the risk of developing diabetes by more than 80 percent. This is an extremely high figure,” Professor Sjostrom said.

The study is based on an extensive study entitled Swedish Obese Subjects (SOS), which has given rise to more than 90 scientific articles and demonstrated that bariatric surgery is also highly beneficial when it comes to cancer, cardiovascular disease, total mortality and health-related quality of life.

“Both women and men benefited in terms of diabetes”, Professor Sjostrom stated, “but the degree of obesity at baseline did not affect the results.

The results of the study were published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).