When I moved to Georgia, I was surprised by how many dialysis clinics there are. Like, half the strip malls in my current town have one. Obesity is the main ri

When I moved to Georgia, I was surprised by how many dialysis clinics there are. Like, half the strip malls in my current town have one. Obesity is the main risk factor for adult-onset diabetes; diabetes and high blood pressure are the main risk factors for chronic kidney disease, and when your kidneys finally fail (whether it's under the strain of sweet tea and biscuits & gravy, or Pepsi and Big Macs), you need dialysis. It's getting so bad now that we're seeing adult-onset diabetes, the diet-inflicted kind, appearing in kids -- not to be confused with juvenile-onset diabetes, the kind that's normally genetic.