Michael Fumento

As per always, fat activist Paul Campos ignores the data linking overweight and obesity to illness. For example at Tech Central Station, one of my favorite websites, he writes "Consider [Bill] Clinton's allusion to a supposed epidemic of Type II diabetes among children. This has become a central claim of the public health establishment's anti-fat warriors, and it has been repeated in literally hundreds of stories in the major media in the last couple of years. Something you won't find in these stories are statistics regarding how many children actually have Type II diabetes. The reason is simple: Type II diabetes remains very rare among children and adolescents, despite an epidemic of claims to the contrary."

But according to the Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, "Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Children and Youth: A New Epidemic," 15 May 2002:

"Type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) has been described as a new epidemic affecting the American pediatric population. This is coincident with an overall 33% increase in DM prevalence documented during the last decade. In 1992, type 2 DM was a rare occurrence in most pediatric centers. By 1994, it represented up to 16% of new cases in urban areas, and by 1999, the incidence of new type 2 DM diagnoses ranged between 8% and 45%, depending on geographic location. These patients have been observed primarily in African-American, Mexican-American, Native- American, and Asian-American children and youth. As in the adult population, type 2 DM in children and youth occurs as a result of insulin resistance coupled with relative beta-cell failure. While there appears to be a host of potential genetic and environmental risk factors for these aberrations, perhaps the most significant risk factor is obesity."

Trust nothing this man writes about obesity. Read more about him here, here, here and here.

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://fumento.com/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/moliver/managed-mt/mt-tb.cgi/1

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Fat Activist Paul Campos Strikes (Out) Again:

» VOICE OF NEW ORLEANS from VOICE OF NEW ORLEANS
[email protected] [Read More]

Tracked on September 2, 2005 4:45 PM