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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / September 2007Omega-3's May Lower Type 1 Diabetes Risk
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=16045412&filename=200709 25/reuters20070925health00000025reutershealthewEDIT.xml or http://tinyurl.com/yo86wq (excerpt) NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among children who are genetically predisposed to develop type 1 diabetes, dietary consumption of omega-3 fatty acids appears to reduce the risk of becoming diabetic, according to new research findings. Type 1 diabetes has a strong hereditary component, and it occurs when the immune system mistakenly attacks the islet cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. The new findings, reported in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, show that this islet "autoimmunity" is curbed by high dietary levels of omega-3's in children with a family history of type 1 diabetes or who have a genetic pattern linked to the condition. "This suggests that in the future, after more research has been done, we may be able to develop nutritional based interventions to prevent type 1 diabetes," lead author Dr. Jill M. Norris, from the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center, told Reuters Health. Related, dont' have the article to reference but I it is in new LEF magazine. Mention stats that children getting 2000iu of Vit D daily for first two years of life have something like 75% less risk of T1 diabetes. > http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=16045412&filename=200709 25/reuters20070925health00000025reutershealthewEDIT.xml > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > type 1 diabetes," lead author Dr. Jill M. Norris, from the University > of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center, told Reuters Health. > Related, dont' have the article to reference but I it is in new LEF > magazine. Mention stats that children getting 2000iu of Vit D daily > for first two years of life have something like 75% less risk of T1 > diabetes. > >> http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=16045412&filename=200709 25/reuters20070925health00000025reutershealthewEDIT.xml Interesting... fish oil and vitamin D were the first supplements I added to my regimen.  Signaturehttp://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/ well that article is garbage!!!! mom used to make us eat fresh wild caught Cod and Salmon 2-3x a week when growing up and as we know it's packed full of Omega-3.. duh! what was mine missing the Omega-3? I still ended up a T1! LOL just not fair I tell ya. http://www.diabetes.org/diabetesnewsarticle.jsp?storyId=16045412&filename=200709 25/reuters20070925health00000025reutershealthewEDIT.xml | or | [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] | type 1 diabetes," lead author Dr. Jill M. Norris, from the University | of Colorado at Denver and Health Science Center, told Reuters Health. I disagree, a human body is only as good as what you feed it with. I strongly believe that at some point in the not so distant future scientists will find that certain nutrients are even more important as preventative medicine than they think even now. When you go down to a cellular level and see the things that happen to our body parts (mitochondria for one example) when the wrong food is eaten then you won't find this article so difficult to understand. And the study uses the word "reduce" not "prevent". So your statements about eating omega 3's as child and still developing type 1 don't go together. Just like smokers having a high risk of developing lung cancer and other cancers doesn't mean that they will develop it. Or that non smokers won't develop it. When you find a link between two things, further studies are indicated. And it's because it "isn't fair" that people develop type 1, that every avenue must be investigated. > well that article is garbage!!!! mom used to make us eat fresh > wild caught Cod and Salmon 2-3x a week when growing up > and as we know it's packed full of Omega-3.. duh! what was > mine missing the Omega-3? I still ended up a T1! LOL just > not fair I tell ya. >> well that article is garbage!!!! mom used to make us eat fresh >> wild caught Cod and Salmon 2-3x a week when growing up >> and as we know it's packed full of Omega-3.. duh! what was >> mine missing the Omega-3? I still ended up a T1! LOL just >> not fair I tell ya. > I disagree, a human body is only as good as what you feed it with. I > strongly believe that at some point in the not so distant future scientists [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > when the wrong food is eaten then you won't find this article so difficult > to understand. > And the study uses the word "reduce" not "prevent". So your statements about > eating omega 3's as child and still developing type 1 don't go together. > Just like smokers having a high risk of developing lung cancer and other > cancers doesn't mean that they will develop it. Or that non smokers won't > develop it. When you find a link between two things, further studies are > indicated. > And it's because it "isn't fair" that people develop type 1, that every > avenue must be investigated. Exactly. I was fed on cod liver oil as a child, a big spoonful every day when I was old enough to walk, before that a teaspoonful. I've always been on the skinny side of normal. For twenty years before diangosis I was eating a heart healthy diet of the recommended ADA type. For ten years before diagnosis I'd first seriously reduced then removed pasta and bread from my diet because I thought I was wheat-intolerant. But I still developed T2 diabetes. Because none of those things prevent it, they just reduce the statistical risk. Possibly I postponed my development of diabetes for a decade or few :-) Annoyingly I possibly also inadvertently concealed my development of it from my doctors :-( But possibly I was just unlucky. That's how it goes with risks. SignatureChris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] > well that article is garbage!!!! mom used to make us eat fresh > wild caught Cod and Salmon 2-3x a week when growing up > and as we know it's packed full of Omega-3.. duh! what was > mine missing the Omega-3? I still ended up a T1! LOL just > not fair I tell ya. Well, that seals the deal, Reisa...you're really a Type2! LOL Kurt >well that article is garbage!!!! mom used to make us eat fresh >wild caught Cod and Salmon 2-3x a week when growing up >and as we know it's packed full of Omega-3.. duh! what was >mine missing the Omega-3? I still ended up a T1! LOL just >not fair I tell ya. Hmmm - weren't you an adult onset? :P Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 |
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