Sports, activity can help children with diabetes

Ever since former Vanderbilt quarterback and now current Denver Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler found out that he has diabetes and said he won't define him as a player, he immediately became the role model for kids all over the country who are fighting the same disease.
He has also became a role model to parents who say if an NFL quarterback can take on the disease and be successful, so can their kids.

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Long-term Pesticide Exposure May Increase Risk of Diabetes

Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute

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Diabetes hospitalises increasing numbers of children

Increasing numbers of children are being admitted to hospital for emergency treatment for diabetes.
Official figures show that more than 3,300 young people in England were taken to hospital accident and emergency departments because of the condition last year, an increase of 8 per cent on the previous 12 months.

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