Children's Health Defense Story at a glance
- About 1 in 3 American teens — more than 8 million adolescents — already live with prediabetes, putting them at high risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke later in life.
- Prediabetes is often silent, with many teens showing no symptoms, which means serious damage begins long before the condition is diagnosed.
- Risk is higher in teens who are overweight, eat ultraprocessed foods or are inactive, but lifestyle changes dramatically lower their chances of developing diabetes.
- When prediabetes progresses, it damages blood vessels, disrupts energy production inside cells and strains your pancreas until it no longer keeps blood sugar in check.
- Parents play a key role in reversing prediabetes by encouraging healthier food choices, daily movement, regular sunlight and monitoring blood sugar markers before Type 2 diabetes takes hold.
Prediabetes is a silent condition that develops when your blood sugar runs higher than normal but not yet high enough to qualify as diabetes. In teens, it often goes unnoticed because there are no clear warning signs.
Some young people might feel more tired than usual, get thirsty often, use the bathroom more or even notice changes in their vision, but many feel nothing at all.
That hidden nature is what makes it dangerous — by the time it progresses into Type 2 diabetes, the damage to your body has already begun. This stage of poor blood sugar control is not just about diabetes risk. It also raises your odds of heart disease, stroke and other chronic problems that shorten a young person’s healthy years of life…
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