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NEWS OF
THE MONTH: Diabetes Linked With Environmental
Pollution
Scientists
at prestigious Cambridge University are advocating the
need for more research about possible links between Type
2 Diabetes and environmental pollution. Specifically,
peer research indicates that persistent organic
pollutants (POP's), which are common in many pesticides
may cause insulin resistance in the human body, which
leads to diabetes. Blood samples of high risk Diabetes 2
subjects also show high levels of POP's. Although this
correlation does not necessarily imply a cause,
Cambridge scientists believe it is certainly something
worth looking into more. Diabetes research until now has
mainly focused on obesity and genetics. What is most
interesting is that the link between obesity and
diabetes drops when there are low levels of POP's in the
blood. Certainly, this is yet another reason to keep
pesticides off the store shelves and out of the home.
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