Hispanics are the fastest growing minority group in the US today.  So it is alarming to see that the overweight children in this group lean to what is called persistent pre-diabetes.  We say someone has pre-diabetes when their fasting blood sugar falls between 100 and 120 - higher than normal but not high enough to qualify for a formal diagnosis of diabetes.  The assumption is that without lifestyle habit modification, though, the pre-diabetic child will become a diabetic teen or young adult.