On the diabetes.org website l read a very short article about a study of 4,857 American Indian children that were born from 1945 to 1984. It stated that nearly 600 of them developed some form of diabetes. It also says high-blood pressure raises the death rate by 53% and high-blood pressure raises it to 73%. The article said "The 1,214 most overweight children in the group had a mortality frequency that was about 230 percent of the leanest group." and that 559 of the study subjects died before age 55.
This study answered a few questions, but it raised some too. Why was the study only on American Indian children? It also said 166 of them died from natural causes, did their weight have anything to do with this? If obesity and cardiovascular problems can be predictors of an early death then why doesn't the government try to lower the risks and strive for a more healthy country. Why do they give millions of dollars in farm subsidies that produce unhealthy food? The only answer I can think of is money and connections but that's a different post. Even though 12.3% of 4,857 doesn't seem like much it is still too high a percent than it should be.
I don't think the author of this article was trying to make the reader think a certain way. There were no opinions in the article. It was simply the results of the study. Although I don't think the author would write the article if they didn't want people to know what the results of the research was. Sometimes I get a little thrown off when I watch, read, or hear something that is supposed to be informative but is mostly someones opinions on the subject. Since the writing was on a website called diabetes.org you can be pretty sure it is wants people to know about this condition. It was an interesting article and I would like to research more about their study.