The Big Number: 24 percent of young adults may have prediabetes in U.S., study shows Washington Post
- Also – 18 % of adolescents
- “…based on data collected from 2005 to 2016 from a nationally representative sample of 5,786 people, ages 12 to 34, found that prediabetes was more common among male participants than female and more prevalent among those who were obese than among normal-weight youths and young adults.”
There are many low-cost, low-risk ways of treating prediabetes
- Prediabetes reduced in half by those getting Magnesium Chloride – RCT April 2015
- Zinc cut in half the rate of prediabetes progressing to diabetes (20 mg) – RCT Oct 2017
- Omega-3 might manage T2 Diabetes – March 2018
Vitamin D
- Diabetes (T2DM) half as likely if keep Vitamin D above 25 ng as a youth – Jan 2018
- Diabetics and prediabetics helped by 5,000 IU of Vitamin D for 6 months– RCT July 2019
- Prediabetes treated by Vitamin D (34 ng, 3500 IU per day) – meta-analysis May 2018
- Can Vitamin D treat Diabetes - many articles
Items in both categories Diabetes and Youth are listed here:
- US young adults – 24 percent have prediabetes (many low-cost ways to treat)– Jan 2020
- Type II Diabetes in children in India increased 4 X in 20 years – Nov 2016
- Obesity lowers vitamin D which increases probability of diabetes in children – Nov 2011
- 97 percent of Native American children have less than 30 ng of vitamin D – Oct 2011