Why has there been such a sharp increase in Type II Diabetes in the US in the last 15 years?

Discussion for my biology lecture class in college, please help me by pointing me to the answer or somewhere i could find it.
Thank you

,Obesity. Little fat kids one to may happy meals

#1-obesity
#2-poor exercise habits

Look at the correlation between average waist size in men or women in comparison to the rise of type II diabetes.

For Type II DM...Obesity, lack of restraint in eating, over-indulgence, lack of exercise. Too much food actually available, and much less physical activity needed in most of our occupations.

If you want to think about it, electronics, nintendo-type games, where all the action is on the TV set, computer games instead of actually playing them yourself.

Less NEED to walk anywhere.

Just food for thought and discussion.
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There are 2 fundamental and parallel reasons. 1 Latinos now outnumber blacks - Latinos have a higher incidence of diabetes - and their population is increasing more rapidly than any other ethnic group. 2 Body Mass Index (weight in kg/height in meters squared) - the medical definition of obesity - is increasing rapidly. Increased BMI means increased incidence of diabetes. Indeed - the teenagers of today are projected to be the 1st generation in the US to live a shorter life than their parents.

MORE JOBS LOSS THEN PEOPLE ARE NOT TAKING CARE OF THEMSELVES THEN THEY ARE GAINING MORE WEIGHT THEN = DIABETES

obesity
sedentary lifestyle
fast food
high sugar/carb processed foods

Because we have turned to fast food for a lot of our meals, people dont walk places they drive, it's easyer to sit and watch tv then go outside and plant a garden. . . . . . . . .

Possibly it may be an increase in cases being diagnosed. the symptoms are easy to mistake, or not recognise or even ignore. A great many people are diagnosed in middle age. At that time it seems normal for eyesight to deteriorate and when glasses compensate then the cause is not likely to be attributed to diabetes.

More frequent urination at night as also thought to be because of reaching middle age when it is ofter diabetes.

High blood pressure and high cholesterol, even heart attacks are often not attributed to diabetes when that is often the cause.

Even being a bit forgetful is usually seen as a sign of age when actually it is a symptom of diabetes.

Maybe these days doctors are at least thinking about the cause as well as the symptom. Also the fact that routine testing is more frequent will give more frequent discovery and diagnosis.

To be very blunt, it's Gluttony . We are eating twice as much today, then our forefathers and mothers did, and they were working physically much harder.

OBESITY.