Overweight Kids Who Lose Excess Weight In Childhood May Also Lose Higher Risk Of Type 2 Diabetes

reports that while “being overweight as a child increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood,” research published in The New England Journal of Medicine “shows that the extra risk disappears if that excess weight is lost by age 13 and kept off in early adulthood.” The study “used registry data to track weights at ages seven, 13 and in early adulthood to look for correlations to diet-dependent diabetes by age 30 to 60” in approximately 62,500 Danish men. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-kids-overweight/heavy-kids-who-normalize-weight-in-childhood-can-avoid-extra-diabetes-risk-idUSKCN1HB32I