To be more accurate, it's not necessarily the cause, but it can be the trigger. Diabetes is generally a genetic disorder that is passed down through the maternal genes. What happens is as you gain weight, you develop a higher tolerance to insulin (think of this in terms of drug addiction where you need more of the drug to achieve your high as your tolerance of it increases...same happens with insulin). You body is producing all the insulin it would normally need, it's just that you are not producing enough receptors that enable the metabolic process to properly ensue. Most type 2 diabetes is triggered by weight or old age. Type 1 diabetes is generally developed at birth or early childhood. That is why Type 2 is referred to as Adult Onset Diabetes.
I have seen some interesting research that links it to Neandertals and a submissive version of the gene that helped to keep them warm (which would make sense...a high blood sugar level would allow more energy to be produced, thus more heat...). They also think red hair comes from them to ;-) Eric -----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 8:35 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: America not #1 in most indices that's a gross over generalization. Diabetes is not strictly related to being overweight. Certain kinds of Type 2 Diabetes are, but all the other sorts, Type 1 insulin dependent etc., the cause is not being overweight. On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 10:25 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > "Food for thought?" > > Sure, but not all in a negative context. > > For example, looking at Life Expectancy. A ranking of 30th seems pretty > bad. Then you consider that the USA has an abundance of food (including the > incredibly unhealthy fast-food), an abundance of non-manual labor jobs, an > abundance of personal vehicles (no biking or walking), and no incentive to > exercises (except personal drive). The USA has a lot overweight people > with diabetes and high blood pressure leading to a lot of premature deaths. > This is by personal lifestyle choices. > > I won't touch prisons and education though. I believe both are incredibly > mismanaged. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:316402 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
