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Boston Fatties
Home » Boston » Blog » Boston FattiesAccording to a new Boston Herald article, one in five adults in the Bay State are obese and the number of adults with diabetes is dangerously on the rise.
The percentage of adults considered "dangerously obese" jumped up from 10% to 18% over the past fifteen years, and the number of diabetes cases increases 5% a year over the past decade, according to an annual Department of Public Health survey.
Once considered an adult-onset disease, Type II diabetes is now showing up in teenagers, said Dr. Mitchell Gitkind, medical director at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center’s Weight Center in Worcester. It's conceivable that as average weights increase, adults could start having heart disease or attacks as young as their 30s.
Obesity has been linked to myriad health problems including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, which in turn cause heart attacks. Diabetes is the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.
My suggestion for Bostonians and other Massachusetts-dwellers would be to ease off to hoagies and lime-green beer and run around the bloody block once in a while.
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