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Posted by elliott on 01:25:36 2004/07/31
In Reply to: Re: Juvenile diabetes linked to baby formula (Australia) posted by Al Gordon
The change in T1 diabetes incidence in developed countries and recently affluent third world countries is too fast to be explained by genetic drift alone (doubling in less than one generation).
An earlier comment by you Al, has the kernel of the problem in it. We live in an ever increasinly industrialised society, and SOMETHING in that process is the likely trigger----and its SOMETHING NEW. I dont see any new viral infections with the exception of AIDS, and reduced infections cannot be the answer--some of the most hygenic people on this planet have the LOWEST diabetes incidence.
We are not eating different categories of food now to what we were 20 years ago (this is the weakness of the milk hypothesis) but we ARE now doing a whole lot of different things to our food before we eat it. Industrial processing and preservation of food is now the norm---we rarely eat fresh anything. The answer is likely to lie there. I have some likely candidates for islet toxins generated during processing---one of them commented on aeons ago by Liebig of condenser fame.
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