No, I haven't. Quite interesting. I wonder what the mechanism is, if those
organic compounds do cause diabetes.

Thanks for sharing this with us.

Jeff

Aha!  Very interesting.  Chlordane was listed as one of the pollutants.  And
the water and soil on the military base where we lived on Cape Cod was
polluted with Chlordane.  We did not drink the tap water aside from making
one pot of coffee when we first moved there.  My husband called home after
we already began drinking it and warned us to buy bottled water.  I used
bottled water to boil pasta and other things, but I did use the tap water
for bathing and even to wash fruits and vegetables with.  Hmmm...  Now that
I think of it, THAT was a bad idea.  I simply couldn't afford to buy bottled
water to bathe in, or to wash my clothes and dishes.  I was also given a ton
of home grown tomatoes by my next door neighbor when they moved out.  I made
a huge pot of spaghetti sauce with most of them and froze it.  We ate that.
And then I learned that it wasn't safe to grow anything in edible in that
soil.

Scientists (at least I think that's what they were) came out to the house
behind mine and put a meter in the ground to register something.  Not sure
what it was though.  And there was a website up (not sure if it's still up
and running) to track our pollution plume.

I was found to have GD quite early in my pregnancy.  Actually, GD was never
proven.  I failed the first OGTT and I was so sick from it that they decided
not to give me another.  They just assumed that I had it.  Given what I know
now, I suspect I was type 2 at that time.  Prior to the pregnancy I could
not shake the thought that I had diabetes, even though I had no outward
signs and didn't know of a family history.  I never mentioned it to the Dr.
for fear he'd think I was nuts.  I've had this same feeling a few times
since with other people and come to find out they were recently diagnosed
type 2's.  Weird!