Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Type 2 diabetes used to be called adult-onset diabetes but more and more young people – children - are getting diagnosed with it. A key reason is that more children are overweight as they head into their teens.
Recently KPCC's Elizabeth Aguilera profiled a family struggling with Type 2 diabetes that struck three generations - the grandmother, mother and daughter.
That's not at all uncommon in Los Angeles, especially in poor Latino and African-American communities. Elizabeth Aguilera joins A Martinez for more.