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 Childhood Diabetes on the Rise in EuropePosted on May 28, 2009
A new study suggests that the number of children in Europe diagnosed with diabetes will double by 2020. After examining tens of thousands of cases, researchers said the cause of the increase remains largely unknown.
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By samosamo, May 28 at 9:02 pm #
By Xntrk, May 28 at 5:30 pm
You’re right, I don’t know how I picked up on this problem as dealing with type 2 and rereading the article from BBC news there is only one reference of comparison of both and I guess my ADD had kicked in allowing me to see it as type 2 the problem.
So most of my questions were of no practical use except the last one where eating a diet heavy in carbohydrates, especially refined carbs including the soft drinks, is a main reason for the increase in type 2 diabetes which is shoveled along by the media playing commercial after commercial after commercial about sweets and candies and soft drinks.
Here is a post here at TD that zipped by with little notice or attention that relates to a cause of not diabetes which it is, but to the over consumption of cola drinks in the amount of 2 to 3 and more liters of cola a day and the results of that over consumption:
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20090525_doctors_issue_cola_warning/
Report thisBy Xntrk, May 28 at 5:30 pm #
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Many, if not most of t6he comments are very confusing. Both the brief introductory blurb, and the full article, clearly state this is an increase in TYPE 1 diabetes, which is the most severe kind.
Type 2 can be controlled thru diet and weight and exercise levels, and does not always result in insulin shots. Until we started o.d.‘ing on junk food, it was a disease of the middle aged and old farts. Now it’s become prevalent among overweight kids here in the US.
This article is discussing a far more severe problem. Type 1 diabetes consigns the victim to a lifetime of insulin shots and a careful regime of diet and health habits to prevent an early death. If Sonia Sotomayor become a SC Justice, we’ll probably all learn more about it, as that is what she has.
That is why the Europeans are so concerned. If it cannot be blamed on heredity, what is happening? The say it’s more prevalent in Eastern Europe. Could it be radiation levels from Chernobyl?
Hell, maybe it’s from living near power lines or to much time on cell phones and computers. Simply blaming people for eating junk food is silly - That is the primary cause of Type 2 diabetes, not Type 1.
The comment boards are much more interesting when they actually address the facts contained in the article instead of jumping to false conclusions based on a prior comment. Or, if you want to go off topic and discuss a related, but different problem, say so…
Report thisBy Blackspeare, May 28 at 5:19 pm #
It’s all genetic and hereditary. Our ability to control disease through a variety of prophylactic measures has lead to a weakened population. Remember Darwin’s survival of the fittest theory——well we’re making the unfittest survive, but it’s real good for the medical industry!
Report thisBy David, May 28 at 4:09 pm #
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Can you say La Mac Grande? America no longer needs missles and bombs to kill. We just send McDonald’s in. It may take longer but the people are just as dead.
Report thisBy hidflect, May 28 at 2:10 pm #
Either there’s a generational mutation in the population’s DNA (unlikely) or there’s a massive introduction into the consumption environment of a new product. As grumpynyker points out, that’d be High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS). Invented in 1977 by Hajinomoto (the same company that brought us MSG) it’s now in every conceivable product from ketchup to Coke. And is virtually unavoidable. I blame it for my own diabetes condition. I don’t see any other cause.
Report thisBy Spiritgirl, May 28 at 12:27 pm #
Nothing happens in a vacuum. When I was younger, we were taught that you are what you eat, now that is no longer said (it might interfere with capitalism). As more and more of our “Food” is processed and more chemical additives to “preserve” why does anyone wonder why?! Children process food and chemicals differently because their bodies are still growing, and therefore these chemicals are altering that growth. All of these “convenience foods” are not as convenient as we would like to think!
Maybe we all need to wake up and smell the coffee, it is time to stop purchasing those “convenience foods” and start purchasing more locally! Start buying those cookbooks again, and preparing your own snacks! Agri-business is only out to profit and if your health suffers in the mean-time oh well - they will say that you should eat more responsibly!
Report thisBy grumpynyker, May 28 at 11:26 am #
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Why don’t you breeders monitor the ingredients your little darlings ingest? If high fructose corn syrup is the number one or two ingredient, DON’T BUY IT!!
Report thisBy ctantiques, May 28 at 11:06 am #
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Juvenile, or Type 2, Diabetes is an auto immune disease.
The body attacks the beta(insulin producing cells) for a reason that as yet no one has determined, and as insulin is required for life one must take exogenous insulin for life, monitor blood sugars frequently, and so on and so forth.
Auto immune diseases in general — Celiac, the colitis’s, Lupus and so on — tend to be familial, though not necessary hereditary in the strictness sense.
The therapies used now, the types of insulin, lead to a very good chance of long life with few complications, but as with anything it is an extremely expensive process and extremely difficult to follow without support, and those without insurance or adequate health care are the most likely to be adversely affected.
The strips to test blood sugar are costly and the recommended at least 4 sometimes up to ten times a day testing is not possible for those who do not have money. The newer, state of the art insulin’s are also the more expensive again making living well harder for those without money.
Report thisBy samosamo, May 28 at 9:36 am #
Type 1 diabetes is the common type of diabetes in the young due to illness or born without the pancreatic function to produce insulin, so what could be the cause here with these newborn type 2 kids?
Has any research gone into looking at the parents disposition towards diabetes type 2 or more severe and prolonged cases of hyperglycemia or hyperinsulinism which could be setting a trait that can be passed on to the kids?
Or could it be like the effects of smoking and/or drinking while pregnant but in this case being pregnant and being more hyperglycemic than normal for the period of pre-conception on through to child birth?
What would the consumption of refined carbohydrates have to do with it, if consumed in mass quantities before and during pregnancy?
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