If only researchers could find out what causes diabetes in children to be diagnosed with increasing frequency every year, we might not only have better ideas about what causes diabetes in children, but also an insight into more of the risk factors that are causing diabetes to rise every year at for all age groups.

Since the 1950’s, something is causing more children under the age of 15 to be diagnosed with type 1 diabetes every year. This disturbing trend is worldwide. And as in adults, the incidence of type 2 diabetes is rising in children as well. It seems this was almost unheard of in the middle of the last century. And if we don’t figure out what causes diabetes in children to keep rising, imagine the consequences both in terms of overall health, but in the rising cost of caring for more diabetes care in more people for …