Scientists reveal one of the causes of diabetes, which affects 95 percent of people
Countries that consume a lot of processed meat have high rates of diabetes – archive
Researchers have revealed one of the factors that cause type 2 diabetes , which accounts for about 95 percent of cases around the world, according to the Science Alert website.
The researchers found that 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 considered a disease that affects the way the body “regulates the movement of glucose and uses it to provide your body with energy.” When mixed with a large amount in the blood, it leads to high levels that cause disturbances in the circulatory system, nervous and immune systems, according to the Mayo Clinic website.
Two problems arise when suffering from diabetes of this type: the first is the inability of the pancreas to secrete a sufficient 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 hormone insulin properly, which is why 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, and three of them turned out to be the most important and associated with: not eating whole grains, eating a lot of refined rice and wheat, and eating a lot of processed meat , according to the study published in the scientific journal 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 in the world,” noting that there are differences between countries and societies in this matter.
The data showed that poor diet was associated with more diabetes in men than in women, and it appeared to have a greater impact on young people than older people.
Geographically, countries in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia were most associated with diabetes, perhaps due to the prevalence of processed red meat in the diet, and 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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