Scientists reveal one of the causes of diabetes, which affects 95 percent of people
Countries that eat too much processed meat have a higher incidence of diabetes
Researchers have revealed one of the factors that causes type 2 diabetes , which accounts for about 95 percent of cases worldwide, according to the "Science Alert" website.
The researchers found that a poor diet is the main cause of this type of diabetes, based on an analysis of data from 184 countries collected during 1990-2018.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that affects the way the body “regulates the movement of glucose and uses it to provide your body with energy.” And when it mixes with a large amount in the blood, it leads to high levels that cause disorders in the circulatory system, the nervous and immune systems," according to the "Mayo Clinic" website.
Two problems appear when diabetes of this type occurs, the first is the inability of the pancreas to secrete an adequate amount of insulin, which is the hormone responsible for regulating the movement of sugar into the cells, and the second is that the cells do not respond to the insulin hormone properly, and for this reason they absorb a small amount of diabetes.
This type of diabetes usually appears in adults, but it may appear in children or adolescents, especially those with obesity.
The researchers tracked 11 different dietary factors, of which three were found to be the most important and associated with: not eating whole grains, eating lots of rice and refined wheat, and eating lots of processed meats, according to the study published in Nature Medicine .
Cardiologist and professor of nutrition at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Dariush Mozaffarian, said that the study reveals that the quality of "bad carbohydrates is the main driver of diabetes caused by poor diet worldwide," noting that there are discrepancies between countries and societies in this matter.
The data showed that a poor diet was more associated with diabetes in men than in women, and it seemed to have a greater impact on young people than on older people.
Geographically, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia were most closely associated with diabetes, perhaps due to the prevalence of processed red meat in the diet, and the numbers were high in Latin American and Caribbean countries as well.
The Mayo Clinic confirms that "there is no cure for type 2 diabetes, but losing weight, eating healthy foods, and exercising can help control it."
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