Female Speaker: Doctors are seeing diabetes in more adults but diabetes is also affecting our children at an alarming rate. Carolyn Jenkins: We are seeing more and more children particularly with Type 2 diabetes. They are obese or overweight child or adolescent has more risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. Female Speaker: As people become more aware of the risks that come along with having diabetes society needs to take steps to prevent this disease from becoming an epidemic. Carolyn Jenkins: Diabetes can be prevented with three basic steps. One is healthy eating, two is physical activity and with a five to 10% weight loss diabetes can be prevented in the person who is overweight. Female Speaker: According to the CDC diabetes is the one of the most common chronic diseases for children in the US. It affects about a 150,000 people under the age of 18, that means about 1 in every 400-500 children has diabetes.