New York City Fitness Professional Predicts Parents Will Be Outliving Their Children

New York, NY (PRWEB) October 5, 2006

Ask any parent, and they will tell you that there is no greater tragedy than the loss of a child of any age. No parent wants to face the task of burying their child. Based on current statistics a large number of American parents may have to face this grim reality predicts New York Fitness Professional Katrina McKenna.

Based on the increasing mortality rates of health conditions caused by lifestyle, obesity is on the verge of surpassing smoking as the leading cause of death in the United States. A recent study by the Centers for Disease Control has found that 1 in 523 people under the age of 20 has diabetes. While most cases are type 1 diabetes which has no know method of prevention an alarming percentage of the cases are type 2 diabetes. The percentage ranges from 6% of whites to 76% of American Indians. These cases of type 2 diabetes can be prevented or at least postponed.

Remember, these statistics only represent diagnosed cases of diabetes; type 2 diabetes frequently goes undiagnosed for years in many people, especially younger people. The disease is often not diagnosed until organ damage has already occurred. Type 2 diabetes was never found in children 20 years ago which means many younger people are not getting tested.

This trend is likely only going to get worse. According to the Centers for Disease Control, obesity rates, especially childhood obesity rates are still on the rise. In the U.S. childhood obesity rates have doubled in the last 25 years. American children are fatter than ever. As a result, more and more children will be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, earlier and earlier.

As people begin getting sick at younger ages there will be a reduction in the life expectancy in our nation, a report printed in the New England Journal of Medicine predicts. Imagine, a child diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at age 15, by 30 he or she could be facing such serious diabetic complications as: kidney failure, blindness, heart attack, stroke, lower leg amputation or even death.

This is unprecedented! Advances in technology and medicine have throughout history allowed us to live longer and longer. But now, technology has resulted in a sedentary lifestyle, and a steady diet full of too much low nutrition convenience foods. People are at risk even if cholesterol, blood pressure, and glucose tests are all normal; being sedentary, being overweight, and eating poorly are all risk factors can lead to early death and disability.

Whether your child is four, fourteen, or forty, you want the best for them. By learning proper fitness and nutrition you and your children will live longer, and have less disability during that time. Heart disease, stroke, diabetes, many forms of cancer can be prevented or at least postponed by proper fitness and nutrition.

Katrina McKenna is the owner of MetamorFitness, a fitness consulting business located in Manhattan specializing in training people with or at risk for diabetes and heart disease. MetamorFitness trainers will design an individualized program the client can live with. She is also the author of, “Diabetes Secrets: How You Can Lose Weight, Control Your Blood Sugar, Look And Feel Great With Type 2 Diabetes.”

For more information contact Katrina McKenna at 646-772-7075 or visit the company’s website at http://www.metamorfitness.com to sign up for the free MetamorFitness Health and Fitness Journal.

For more information about, “Diabetes Secrets: How You Can Lose Weight, Control Your Blood Sugar, Look And Feel Great With Type 2 Diabetes,” and to download the Table of Contents, and the first 2 chapters for free, go to http://www.DiabetesFatLossBook.com.

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