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Content: Then, diabetes ensues. The threat to our children: We never thought that type 2 diabetes would occur in 10 or 12 year olds; but now it’s not uncommon to see that. These are serious consequences. And the tendency to dismiss this or to, perhaps, even see it in some cultures as a norm, is getting in the way of recognizing this as a real public health emergency. This is a tragedy. After all of these years of building up our health care in order that people are saved from premature disability and death, we could lose these gains. It could hardly be more serious, when you think about it in those terms. Do you want your children and your grandchildren to inherit a society where their hopes for a long and healthy life are not even as good as yours were?