diabesity

The combination of obesity and diabetes has been coined Diabesity.

There's even a term for this unhealthy alliance: "diabesity."

These two conditions are so strongly linked that researchers in the 1970s started calling it "diabesity".

Reaching children before unhealthy habits become ingrained is critical to giving them a chance to grow up "diabesity" free.

The ailment, which rarely affected children in the past, is so closely linked to obesity that it has been nicknamed "diabesity."

Her best selling book, "Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America", has been praised by Cable News Network's Wolf Blitzer as, "Incredibly important.

Other important factors in the diabesity epidemic, Dr. Kaufman explained, are the failure of schools to set good examples by providing only healthful fare, a loss of required physical activity in schools and the inability of many children these days to walk or bike safely to school or to play outside later.