Spring is in full swing here in Michigan and around the country. That means you can find young athletes playing soccer and baseball in any given park just about every night of the week. It also means that on game days our young players get rewarded with cookies, chips and super-processed-jumbo-sized-mega-sized-chocolate-sugar-pops after their hard fought battles.

When did it happen? When did our nation associate youth sports as another chance to dose our kids up with candy? Can't we just play the game for the game itself?

Just this week yet another report came out with huge Red Flag warnings for us to ignore. This study found that between the years of 1997 and 2003 the rate of kids hospitalized for type II diabetes jumped 4-fold. That's a 200% increase in hospitalization for type II diabetes in kids, with those between 9 and 12 years old showing the worst hospitalization rates. This is reaffirming the CDC's (Center for Disease Control) prediction that 1 out of 3 of today's kids will become diabetic.

I coach soccer in a small town where we have about 250 kids playing soccer this fall in our club. If we are an average town then the CDC's prediction translates to more than 80 of those 250 young soccer players with diabetes in their future. Personally, I can't believe we would let this actually happen – yet the data says it is happening.

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