Cases of children and adolescents acquiring type 2 diabetes (or adult-onset diabetes) were unheard of 20 years ago. Steven Ponder, M.D., had never seen a 347-pound, 11-year-old boy until recently either. “I didn’t see this kind of morbid obesity 10 to 15 years ago,” said Ponder, director of the Diabetes and Endocrine Center at the Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. (more…)