If your waist is expanding, so (31) your
chances of coming down with diabetes, even if you think you’re (32)
young to get sick. Researchers have found that extreme obesity raises
the risk of the disease to levels usually faced only by older people.
But there’s hope for fat people (33) about their
health. "Even a loss of just 10-15 pounds can make a big (34)
in their risk for developing diabetes or improving the diabetes that
they’ve developed," Hillier says. Type II diabetes, in
(35) the body either doesn’t make enough insulin to regulate
blood sugar (36) can’t properly handle the insulin it does
make, generally has (37) considered a disease of senior
citizens, especially people over 50. But rates of Type Il, which (38)
up 95 percent of ali diabetes cases, skyrocketed (39)
the 1990s among young people, even teenagers. Experts estimate the
rates went up by 70 percent among people (40) 30-39. Type Il
diabetes usually (41) be controlled by with diet and
exercise, (42) sufferers also may need drugs. (43) seems to cause diabetes in two ways, says Dr
Larry Wu, a family physician in Durham, N. C. First, obese people usually aren’t
active, which means that glucose, or blood sugar, remains in the blood-stream
(44) of going to muscles where it’s needed during exercise.
In this (45) , it does damage to multiple areas,
(46) the eyes, the kidneys, the blood vessels and the
nerves. (47) , people with lots of fat tissue become more
resistant to insulin, which pushes glucose (48) of the blood
stream, he says. A recent study found modest weight
(49) and modest exercise--30 minutes of walking a day--can
dramatically (50) the risk of Type Ⅱ diabetes.