With each year, the risk of complications grows. It is also easy for the rest of us to put off exercising and developing better eating habits. This is the era of fast food. It is a time when schools cut physical education programs, and Pepsi and Coke bid for the right to sell pop to your kids. Children have video games instead of baseball to keep them occupied.
Adults have a channel changer.
Subdivisions are built without sidewalks. The sharp rise in cases of diabetes is worrisome. Absent a cure, as more people under the age of 40 develop diabetes, the bill for treating them will be enormous. The toll of their suffering will be incalculable. David Haynes is business editor of the Journal Sentinel.