Re: Researchers discover how a high-fat diet causes type 2 diabetes

Peabody wrote:
: Juhana Harju says...
:
:::: For sometime diabetes has been described as a disorder
:::: of fat metabolism. This affects beta cells and leads
:::: in time to high glucose levels for those with the
:::: genetic disposition. What we consider as classic
:::: symptoms of diabetes are several steps down the chain
:::: of causes. Using large population studies high intake
:::: of saturated fats is related to the risk of diabetes
:::: and the metabolic syndrome with the level of insulin
:::: resistance being a common theme. This study looks at
:::: this origin of the fat handling disorder:
:
:::: http://www.NewsTarget.com/020449.html
:
::: I'm so confused!
:
::: Bill
:
:: This might clarify the issue a bit.
:
:: http://www.juvenon.com/jhj/vol5no01.htm
:
: No, it doesn't. At least not for me.
:
: The original article referred to a "high-fat diet", but the
: Juvenon "explanation" refers to obesity, as being the bad
: guy. They are not the same thing.

I guess you did not read the full text. Quote from the site: "There are two
toxic effects, one from high glucose, or glycotoxicity, and the other from
high fat (lipid), or lipotoxicity."

: I guess I need to read the study itself.
:
: I also didn't know that "for sometime diabetes has been
: described as a disorder of fat metabolism". Who knew?
: Well, it just seems to me that there is a lot of really
: fuzzy, conflicting language and thinking in both of these
: explanations. Need to find the study, I guess.
:
: Rats!

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Juhana


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