Adolescents and youth play an important role in society, constituting 30 per cent of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean. In Mexico, according to the figures reported in the 2019 National Demographic Dynamics Survey, there are 30.7 million young people aged 15 to 29, representing 24.6 percent of the population. This group is considered a healthy subset of the population, however it is precisely at this stage where healthy styles and behaviors that contribute to the reduction of risk factors associated with the development of chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes must be strengthened, disease that currently occupies one of the leading causes of death and that according to the projections of the International Diabetes Federation in 2030 approximately 10.2% of the world’s population will have this disease, this is why it is necessary to promote healthy styles in adolescents and young people, which contributes to the reduction of chronic non-communicable diseases and the complications associated with them.
