One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

We are eating hybridized and genetically modified (GMO) foods full of antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, and additives that were unknown to our immune systems just a generation or two ago. The result? Our immune system becomes unable to recognize friend or foe - to distinguish between foreign molecular invaders we truly need to protect against and the foods we eat or, in some cases, our own cells. In Third World countries where hygiene is poor and infections are common, allergy and autoimmunity are rare.

We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.