Philly! 2008

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This Graph shows how much higher the percentages in Black and Latino people are vs. white or all races. This is an important statistic because it allows us to see how type two effects different races.

Type 2 Diabetes Graph

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This graph is very good, because it shows the difference in diagnoses of Type 2 diabetes according to race, normally I wouldn't like a graph organized like this on my blog considering I am about class not race, but I think it is important to show this as well. As you can see the numbers are averagely higher in men and in Mexican Americans. What does this tell you about the races and how they live their lives? Does it show what the problems are? Yes I think it does.

Background Information on Type 2

Type 2 diabetes is when the body does not produce enough insulin or the cells ignore the insulin and don't take it. People at higher risk of Type 2 are the elderly, African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islanders. Studies have shown this many times and again.

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Type 2 strikes Kenya's Middle-Class Kids

An outbreak of type 2 diabetes has hit Kenya, effecting children as young as six years old. Scientists say that it is because of obesity, lack of exercise, and fast-food diets. I am inclined to agree with them. These are the causes of Type 2 diabetes. It often does hit the middle-class, the lower-class often too. From what I have seen it rarely hits the upper-class of society. Who knows why this is, maybe because they grew up eating better food, or doing more things then the middle-class children of today. But it does hit the middle-class the hardest from what I have seen, the fast-food diets and unhealthy ways of living pushing it along.

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Mutations in Diabetes

This article explains the mutations in diabetes. One to Five percent of cases in young people have mutations in them making the diabetes either particularly hard to control or even more deadly then it already is. Often Type Two doesn't have mutations.

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Effectiveness of Glucose Lowering Treatments

13 different studies have been studied and reviewed by several scientists. They have all been compiled into a simple yet effective article that explains the effectiveness. The only problem with this article is it has been both proven correct and proven different results in other studies. It does not have much of a range or a pool of studies to choose from. Only 13.

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Sugared Beverages and Obesity

Obesity has gone up  over the years while the mass production of sugared beverages and sweetened things have gone up as well. With these things going up Type Two has gone up, it is caused mostly by too much sugar in the blood and your body not being able to make enough insulin to make sure your blood sugar is at a safe rate. 

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