Hmmm, while we're at it, lets check the
official causes of Diabetes too:
First lets distinguish Type1/Type2 Definitions and Causes:
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Type 1 Diabetes is an autoimmune disease that affects only 0.3% of people on average.
Etiology and Risk factors which may trigger type 1 diabetes may be genetic,
poor diet (malnutrition)
and environment (e.g., virus affecting pancreas). Secondly, in most of the cases, diabetes occurs because there is
abnormal levels of some hormones in blood which act as antagonists to insulin.
Example- Adrenocortical hormone,
Adrenaline hormone and Thyroid hormone.
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Type 2 Diabetes is also called
non insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or
adult-onset diabetes. It occurs when the body produces enough insulin but cannot utilize it effectively.
This type of diabetes usually develops in middle age. A general observation says that
about 90-95 % of people suffering with diabetes are type 2; about
80 percent are overweight. It is more common among people who are older; obese;
Following are the Causes of Diabetes
- Poor Diet (Malnutrition Related Diabetes) : Improper nutrition, low protein and fiber intake, high intake of refined products are the expected reasons for developing diabetes.
- Obesity and Fat Distribution : Being overweight means increased insulin resistance, that is if body fat is more than 30%, BMI 25+, waist grith 35 inches in women or 40 inches in males.
- Sedentary Lifestyle : People with sedentary lifestyle are more prone to diabetes, when compared to those who exercise thrice a week, are at low risk of falling prey to diabetes.
- Stress : Either physical injury or emotional disturbance is frequently blamed as the initial cause of the disease. Any disturbance in Cortiosteroid or ACTH therapy may lead to clinical signs of the disease.
- Drug Induced: Clozapine (Clozaril), olanzapine (Zyprexa), risperidone (Risperdal), quetiapine (Seroquel) and ziprasidone (Geodon) are known to induce this lethal disease.
- Infection : Some of the strephylococci is suppose to be responsible factor for infection in pancreas.
- Hereditary or Inherited Traits : It is strongly believed that due to some genes which passes from one generation to another, a person can inherit diabetes. It depends upon closeness of blood relationship as mother is diabetic, the risk is 2 to 3%, father is diabetic, the risk is more than the previous case and if both the parents are diabetic, the child has much greater risk for diabetes.
Other Related Conditions/Cofactors
- Age : Increased age is a factor which gives more possibility than in younger age. This disease may occur at any age, but 80% of cases occur after 50 year, incidences increase with the age factor.
- Sex : Diabetes is commonly seen in elderly especially males but, strongly in women and those females with multiple pregnancy or suffering from (PCOS) Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
- Hypertension : It had been reported in many studies that there is direct relation between high systolic pressure and diabetes.
- Serum lipids and lipoproteins : High triglyceride and cholesterol level in the blood is related to high blood sugars, in some cases it has been studied that risk is involved even with low HDL levels in circulating blood.
http://diabetesinformationhub.com/WhatCausesDiabetes.php
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Officially, the exact causes of Diabetes, especially individual cases, is
unknown.
But this just reflects the current Western medical philosophy of not confronting the patient with causes of disease at all, i.e., being judgemental.
Instead, doctors are trained to ignore causes, and concentrate on symptoms, avoiding conflict or comments on obvious dangerous factors and conditions such as lifestyle, and/or work environment, which would implicate and incriminate large corporations for their unsafe work environments and practices.
Thus contrary to current non-judgemental but unrealistic policies, we can say frankly that
90% of modern 'diabetes' (adult-onset) is caused by diet and/or environment, not heredity, which is just a red herring, a smoke-screen to cover up the real problem.
This does not mean that in every case it is the individual patient/victim's fault:
Chemical Hazards in the Workplace and Environment:
Many common chemical hazards are known to cause pancreatic damage and insulin production failure:
Lead exposure,
Cadmium, 'junk food' (restaurant chain food, e.g. MacDonalds etc.), for which corporations, not victims or parents should be held accountable for.
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Arsenic acts as
a growth stimulant in chickens -- develops the meat faster -- and since then, the poultry industry has gone wild using this ingredient," says Donald Herman, a Mississippi agricultural consultant and former Environmental Protection Agency researcher who has studied this use of arsenic for a decade. At mean levels of chicken consumption (60 g/person/day), people may ingest 1.38-5.24 micrograms/day of inorganic arsenic from chicken alone.
Junk Food Additives are strongly linked to Diabetes:
Alloxan, the chemical that makes white flour look "clean and beautiful" destroys the beta cells of the pancreas. Scientists have known of the alloxan-diabetes connection for years yet there seems to be a conspiracy that defends the integrity of the FDA, which allows dangerous chemicals that can cause diabetes to be used in drugs and food.
aspartame:
According to research conducted by
Dr. H.J. Roberts, a diabetes specialist, a member of the ADA, and an authority on artificial sweeteners,
aspartame:
1) Leads to the precipitation of clinical diabetes.
2) Causes poorer diabetic control in diabetics on insulin or oral drugs.
3) Leads to the aggravation of diabetic complications such as retinopathy, cataracts, neuropathy and gastroparesis.
4) Causes convulsions.
Dr. Roberts said, "The loss of diabetic control, the intensification of hypoglycemia, the occurrence of presumed 'insulin reactions' (including convulsions) that proved to be aspartame reactions, and the precipitation, aggravation or simulation of diabetic complications (especially impaired vision and neuropathy) while using these products."
The FDA's own toxicologist, Dr. Adrian Gross told Congress that without a shadow of a doubt,
aspartame can cause brain tumors and brain cancer and violated the Delaney Amendment which forbids putting anything in food that is known to cause Cancer.
Sodium Benzoate:
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has known for almost 15 years that potassium benzoate and sodium benzoate react with ascorbic acid to form
benzenes.
Potassium benzoate, sodium benzoate and ascorbic acids are all commonly used to preserve freshness in soft drinks.
The excess of diabetes reported for the Benzene Sub registry occurred in the group aged 10 to 17 years, suggesting it is likely that IDDM is the type of diabetes most prevalent. It has been demonstrated that most IDDM patients have autoantibodies to the pancreas (Lernmark et al., 1981), as well as to other organs Benzene has been shown to stimulate the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) axis of mice (Hsieh et al., 1991), accompanied by increased ACTH/corticosterone release into the blood.
Modern pharmaceuticals are also known to cause both Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
http://www.naturalnews.com/023701_diabetes_food_health.html
For more info try here:
http://causesofdiabetes.org/
http://www.google.com/webhp#hl=en&q...10&oq=causes+of+diabetes+&fp=3aa7f458acaa2672
peace
Nazaroo
