Ishii discovered 25 years ago that insulinlike growth factors can prevent diabetes-related peripheral nerve damage. For many years, scientists have been working to understand the relationship between diabetes and dementia; 80 percent of Alzheimer’s patients have a history of diabetes or pre-diabetes. Diabetic people also are at a higher risk of developing dementia...... <<<
If the two are connected, then there will be many with dementia, for about 25 years ago, it appears that the doctors suddenly discovered that most of the folks in this area had diabetes, no not from living in the area, many were new to the area.
Well, I believe that rates for diabetes throughout this entire country skyrocketed in the late 1970s totally due to the invention High Fructose Corn Syrup by the Japanese coupled with a massive change in diet for our population.
Throughout recorded human history, people have lived on diets in which a substantial portion of their calories came from S.T.A.R.C.H. - things like rice, potatoes, millet, and WHITE flour - all of which contain extremely small amounts of fructose.
And it's not just the HFCS within all the mass produced foods that is at fault. Remember how at some point after the 1960s people thought that using PEARS and pear juice to sweeten commercial foods was healthier than using that "poison" white sugar --- but which sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose, whereas PEARS are the fruit with the highest fructose content. Apples are second to pears and it was at the same time that suddenly all infants & toddlers were being fed apple juice.
In the 1940s and 1950s babies were fed milk or water. Or water or milk.
Did you know that something like 90% of ALL children under age 3 cannot digest fructose???
So why are nutritionists pushing those NINE servings of fruits & veggies every single day, when all fruits except berries and most veggies contain HUGE amounts of fructose?
Starch is digested differently than fructose, and I am starting to believe that the reason earlier generations did not suffer from obesity epidemics is that they subsisted primarily on STARCHY FOODS with a bit of meat, and just a little veggies and even less fruit.
In Europe, some researchers want to replace the Glycemic Index with a Fructose Index, as they believe that fructose is responsible for overweight & obesity and can dangerously contribute to diabetes.
Over 45% of people who descend from white Europeans cannot handle fructose - but most people have never heard of this. Also, they don't even know how Fructose Malabsorption affects other races, because no research has yet been done.
Lab rats & mice fed diets of fructose invariably develop diabetes.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=fructose+diabetes
/ soapbox.
"Back when I was a kid, the two major fears in America revolved around polio and Communism. Because the first disease was so prevalent and so often fatal prior to the miraculous cures wrought by Dr. Albert Sabin and Dr. Jonas Salk, neither of whom managed to garner a Nobel Prize for their heroic efforts, children were kept out of public swimming pools and were discouraged from having too much physical activity. It's a wonder that our entire generation didn't grow up to be hypochondriacs because if you were even slightly fatigued or had an aching back or a stiff neck, anguished parents started measuring you for an iron lung. The second disease, Communism, created its own form of hysteria.
During the late 40s and early 50s, we had A-bomb drills in public schools. We grammar school kids were led to believe that in case the Russians hit L.A. with an atomic bomb, we would be safe so long as we dropped to the floor and huddled beneath our desks with our hands clasped tightly behind our necks. As everyone knows, there's nothing better than tiny hands to ward off the effects of atomic radiation. To this day, I wonder who came up with that particular brainstorm.
On the off-chance that the Russkies elected not to vaporize us, a lot of people were convinced that the plan to prevent tooth decay by introducing fluoride into our reservoirs was a Commie plot. The fluoride, we were warned, would turn our brains to mush and make us easy prey for the Soviet Menace. It's taken about 60 years, but I am now convinced that the scaremongers were right. How else to explain American liberals except by accepting that the Commies contaminated our water supply?" --columnist Burt Prelutsky
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