What generally causes diabetes?over production of insulin, not eating enough sugar, the thymus is unable to signal the pancreas to make insulin, pancreas in unable to regualte glucose levels in the body ..
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Doctors don't actually know the cause of diabetes. They know it can either be a disease that is inherited or auto immune. Inherited is when you got the genes from your parents/grandparents and so forth. Auto immune is where for some unknown reason your body attacks the pancreas making it unable to produce enough insulin.
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Research is pointing at fructose as one cause of diabetes. Dr. Robert Lustig, UCSF, has a video showing the process, linked below.
Dr. Richard Johnson, U of Colorado, has found a direct correlation with uric acid and high blood pressure, fatty liver disease and diabetes. See link below.
In the year 2000, Canadian researchers at the University of Toronto fed a high-fructose diet to Syrian golden hamsters, rodents that have a fat metabolism extremely similar to our own. In a matter of weeks, the hamsters developed both elevated triglycerides and insulin resistance.2 Fructose also contributes mightily to creating new fat on your body.
Recently, in an ingenious study at the University of California, Davis, researchers Peter Havel and Kimber Stanhope investigated whether fructose is "worse" for you than glucose (the other simple sugar that makes up both sucrose and HFCS).3 The short answer is, "you betcha".
For two weeks, Havel and company fed a strictly controlled diet to 23 overweight or obese adults from 43-70 years of age. They measured all sorts of things like heart disease risk factors, blood fats, cholesterol, and weight. Then they split the subjects into two groups.
Both groups were allowed to eat whatever they liked, but each person had to drink three sweetened beverages a day, accounting for about 1/4 of their daily calories. Group one drank a beverage sweetened with pure glucose; group two drank a beverage sweetened with pure fructose.
After only two weeks drinking their assigned beverages, the problems with fructose became immediately apparent. The fructose drinking group had increasing measures of heart disease risk. Their LDL ("bad") cholesterol went up, their triglycerides were elevated, and worst of all, their insulin sensitivity decreased significantly — a sign that their risk for both metabolic syndrome and diabetes had gone up.
To add insult to injury, the fructose folks gained 3 pounds (while the glucose folks did not). And the type of fat they gained was the most dangerous and metabolically active — intra-abdominal fat around the middle, the risky kind associated with heart disease.
So fructose is one of the worst sweeteners you can possibly use, and we've known that for some time. Fifteen years ago, the prestigious (and conservative) American Journal of Clinical Nutrition published a review article by P.A. Mayes which stated that "long-term absorption of fructose (causes) enzyme adaptations that increase lipogenesis (fat creation), and VLDL (bad cholesterol) secretion, leading to decreased glucose tolerance and hyperinsulinemia."4
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For type 2 diabetes it is generally caused by Obesity and Inactivity. Genetic can also contribute.
For type 1
The exact cause of type 1 diabetes is unknown. Scientists do know that in most people with type 1 diabetes, their body's own immune system — which normally fights harmful bacteria and viruses — mistakenly destroys the insulin-producing (islet) cells in the pancreas. Genetics may play a role in this process, and exposure to certain viruses may trigger the disease.
There aren't many known risk factors for type 1 diabetes, though researchers continue to find new possibilities. Some known risk factors include:
■A family history. Anyone with a parent or sibling with type 1 diabetes has a slightly increased risk of developing the condition.
■Genetics. The presence of certain genes indicates an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes. In some cases — usually through a clinical trial — genetic testing can be done to determine if someone who has a family history of type 1 diabetes is at increased risk of developing the condition.
■Geography. The incidence of type 1 diabetes tends to increase as you travel away from the equator. People living in Finland and Sardinia have the highest incidence of type 1 diabetes — about two to three times higher than rates in the United States and 400 times that of people living in Venezuela.
Possible risk factors for type 1 diabetes include:
■Viral exposure. Exposure to Epstein-Barr virus, coxsackievirus, mumps virus or cytomegalovirus may trigger the autoimmune destruction of the islet cells, or the virus may directly infect the islet cells.
■Low vitamin D levels. Research suggests that vitamin D may be protective against type 1 diabetes. However, early intake of cow's milk — a common source of vitamin D — has been linked to an increased risk of type 1 diabetes.
■Other dietary factors. Omega-3 fatty acids may offer some protection against type 1 diabetes. Drinking water that contains nitrates may increase the risk. Additionally, the timing of the introduction of cereal into a baby's diet may affect his or her risk of type 1 diabetes. One clinical trial found that between ages 3 and 7 months appears to be the optimal time for introducing cereal.
Some other possible risk factors include if your mother was younger than age 25 when she gave birth to you or if your mother had preeclampsia during pregnancy. Being born with jaundice or experiencing a respiratory infection just after you were born are also potential risk factors.
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There are numerous causes and in some cases, none at all. It just happens. Mine was the result of traumatic injury. Oh well.
EMT
-John Williams
Causes of Diabetes:
- 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.
- Age: Increased age is a factor which gives more possibility than in younger age.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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