Youth diabetes in Europe set to explode: study

[Old Coot]

Source: AFP

PARIS (AFP) – Incidence of Type 1 diabetes in children aged under five in Europe is set to double by 2020 over 2005 levels while cases among the under-15s will rise by 70 percent, according to a study.

The trend, based on diagnosed cases between 1989-2003, will be highest in the former Communist countries of eastern Europe, it warns.

The paper, published online by the British journal The Lancet, says the increase is so dramatic that it cannot be attributed to genes alone.

Instead, "modern lifestyle habits" are the likely culprits, it says.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090528/ts_afp/healthdiseasediabeteseurope_20090528013713

[paulsby]

1. please translate

"stop stuffing yer faces with crap" and disseminate it to these youths

that should help

[Old Coot]

2. Type I diabetes isn't caused by overeating. nt

[paulsby]

4. if the scientists said it wasn't solely going to be caused by genes

then what other factor besides diet would contribute to the outbreak?

[Old Coot]

5. 25 years ago, my (then) 6 year old daughter had what seemed to be a virus infection.

Several days into it she became lethargic and eventually became non-responsive. That is how she became a diabetic. She was not overweight and did not eat "junk". To this day, I think that a virus attacked her and her immune system over-responded and attacked the islet cells in her pancreas.

I don't know what would contribute to causing Type I Diabetes.

edited to clarify

[paulsby]

6. good info

thx.

[xxqqqzme]

10. The article seems to give some

weight to your suspicions. See post #7.

[xxqqqzme]

7. "...The immune system destroys cells

in the pancreas that make insulin, the hormone that breaks down glucose into other forms of energy, and this causes sugar levels in the blood to rise dangerously.

Experts say the disorder seems to be caused by a mix of genetic vulnerability and environmental factors.

These include increases in weight and height, less exposure to early infections in childhood and delivery by caesarean section...."

From the article

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Interesting.

A friend's son was recently diagnosed with Type 1. He's in his early teens, and there's no history of the disease in his family.

[Old Coot]

3. Dupe - self deleted.

[McCamy Taylor]

8. Technically type 1 is not related to obesity. It is autoimmune or destruction of the pancreas

maybe by a chemical or environmental factor.

However, the authors may be calling all kids who have to take insulin "type 1" when some of them are really suffering from obesity related (severe) type 2 diabetes at an early age.

[pam4water]

11. I read an article a couple of years ago about possible links between some toxins and genetic

damage. I remember there wasn't much work being done on it because most of the funding for research at Universities these days come from the corperations dumping the toxins.