More than a third of all U.S. children ages 6 to 19 are overweight or obese, according to government statistics. Without intervention, researchers say, parents may bury more of their children because of early death from obesity-related illness like diabetes and heart and liver disease. "Twenty years ago, you never saw anyone less than 20 years of age with so-called adult diabetes," said Gary Foster, director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple. "Now we're seeing children as young as 10, 11, 12 years old who have adult diabetes." Every child Foster has seen with type 2 or adult-onset diabetes during his recent work in Philadelphia middle schools was either overweight or obese. "If you get diabetes when you're 10, you may be looking at an amputation, at eye problems, at kidney problems as early as 30 or 40 years of age."