Your genes also play a part in whether you get the disease, but experts reckon that it is more to do with diet.
Problems with Type 2 diabetes and children are already worrying doctors in America, and now those problems may be on the rise here too.
The discovery of Type 2 diabetes in children has led to new calls for an improvement to the food children are eating, although the government say plans are already in place to fight obesity.
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