GPSGuided wrote:Son of a Beach wrote:Sorry, I thought it was obvious. Type II diabetes in the majority of cases can be controlled simply by good diet, and simply wouldn't even occur in the first place (in many cases) if a good diet was adhered to. The increase of sugar in our western diets parallels the increase in diabetes very closely. Before synthetic insulin, diet was the only way to control it and in many cases they did quite well that way.
Sorry, not so obvious. And if that's the premise of further statements, then the facts better be correct.
For a fact, NIDDM has been identified as a separate entity for more than a thousand years. Diet and body habitus certainly will contribute to the unmasking of this condition but it's by no means the sole factors. In the meantime, biguanide class of oral anti-diabetic medicine has been used for a few centuries while a potent form of this class of drug in the form of Metformin has been actively used since the 1950s. It's hardly a modern solution and diet certainly was not the only way to control and treat the condition.
OK, so now what's your point?
Are you suggesting that diabetes cannot be controlled or prevented in most people by maintaining a good diet? Because that's all I was getting at with that post.
I never said it was a sole factor - in fact if you read my post, I agreed with you on that. I suppose that I was referring to the symptoms of diabetes and that many (even most?) people need not ever suffer from it if they have a good diet.
I'm a good target for being shot down in flames when I don't get all my reasoning exactly spot on, but please try to aim at the point.
According to the
Harvard School of Public Health:
Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Prevented
Although the genes you inherit may influence the development of type 2 diabetes, they take a back seat to behavioral and lifestyle factors. Data from the Nurses’ Health Study suggest that 90 percent of type 2 diabetes in women can be attributed to five such factors: excess weight, lack of exercise, a less-than-healthy diet, smoking, and abstaining from alcohol.
Data from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study indicate that a “Western” diet, combined with lack of physical activity and excess weight, dramatically increases the risk of type 2 diabetes in men.
This is really what my point was. If you disagree with this, or don't want to engage on this point, then I guess I don't think I'll bother to continue this discussion as it was the only point I was trying to make in that post.
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