Posted on 09/15/2024 10:20:31 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
New research shows that eating fruit, oats and rye in childhood is associated with a higher risk of developing type 1 diabetes (T1D). Eating berries, however, is linked to lower odds of developing the condition.
T1D is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing islet cells in the pancreas.
What triggers the immune system's attack is unknown but is thought to involve a combination of a genetic predisposition and an environmental trigger such as a virus or foodstuff.
Finland has the highest incidence of T1D globally, with 52.2 cases per 100,000 children under the age of 15—more than five times higher than in the 1950s.
To address this, Professor Virtanen and colleagues explored whether diet in infancy and early childhood was associated with the development of T1D.
A group of 5,674 children with genetic susceptibility to T1D was followed from birth to the age of six.
By the age of six, 94 of the children had developed type 1 diabetes. Another 206 developed islet autoimmunity and so were at substantially increased risk of developing T1D in the next few years.
The 34 food groups covered the entire diet.
The results show that the more fruit, oats or rye children ate, the more their risk of T1D increased.
In contrast, eating strawberries, blueberries, lingonberries, raspberries, blackcurrants and other berries appeared to provide protection against T1D. The more berries a child ate, the less likely they were to develop T1D.
"Berries are particularly rich in polyphenols, plant compounds which may dampen the inflammation that is associated with the development of type 1 diabetes," says Professor Virtanen.
Oats, bananas, fermented dairy products and wheat were associated with an increased risk of islet autoimmunity, whereas cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage, were associated with decreased risk.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
I don’t know.
I guess if you make your living studying things and publishing, then you are going to have to publish controversial stuff to get noticed and continue the gravy train.
Of all my children the milk/yogurt consumers both got type 1 and the ones that were not did not. Yes, anecdotal but ...
And there are ZERO cases of type 1 in both my background and their father's.
We would never eat eating fruit, oats and rye when we were children but berries were everywhere ,many moons ago but today kids are force fed this stuff and told it’s healthy
So, eating Pop Tarts and Cocoa Puffs would be better?
“New research being presented at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) in Madrid, Spain (9-13 September), shows that eating fruit, oats and rye in childhood is associated...”
First: It is being “presented”. No paper seems to have been reviewed and published. We know almost nothing about HOW the study was done. And what the actual results were.
Second: “Associated”. We don’t know if the “risks” were 20% higher or 5,000% higher. A rule of thumb is that is the risks in a study like this show DOUBLE the risk (100% increase), then it MIGHT be worth further study. Anything less is considered statistical noise.
Third: There are probably 100 variables. One CANNOT adjust for most. Example: Average amount of exercise. How would one adjust the risk if you knew someone ran 5 miles 3 times a week versus lifted weights versus went bowling? What is exercise? And EXACTLY how much impact does it have? If you do not know, you cannot adjust. And these sorts of studies - which in this case seems not to have been published even - there are tons of unknown variables: plastics in the environment to microwave to amount of sunlight exposure to....what? We do not know and cannot adjust for what we do not know.
IOW, junk science. As is most of what is published now, and...this is just something someone is “presenting”?
There’s a hypothesis floating around that in our rush to hybridize wheat to make the yields more hearty/productive that there’s somehow been introduced a toxicity to it which causes diabetes by inflaming the gut/causing a reaction. Or could be the pesticides as well.
Dairy allergies in your family otherwise?
Type 1 is not hereditary. They think it is caused by a fault in the immune system after an unknown viral attack. Or possibly a gene fault. This is the first I’ve heard that diet has anything to do with it. Billions of children drink milk; I seriously doubt milk has anything to do with it. I’m skeptical of any diet relationship.
None.
Billions of children drink milk; I seriously doubt milk has anything to do with it. I’m skeptical of any diet relationship.
Perhaps you are right. It might be the things they are feeding the cows that turns up in the milk. I take a dim view on the quality of American food these days.
I think Type 1 is caused by vaccinations. I’ve met 3 others that said they were vaccinated for something before they turned, and I had a tetanus shot a couple weeks before I did myself.
Berries are fruit!
??????
Berries have a much lower glycemic index than other fruits.
Sick of this!
Since you post a lot of stories like this one, have you run across stories about kids being vaccinated as a cause of future medical issues????
Not that I recall.
That's been the story since I first read about T1 diabetes years ago. As far as I know, nothing has changed.
I would submit that it takes a HELL OF A LOT MORE than dietary intake to trigger such a reaction.
I went to find the linked study, learning only that "research was presented" and then saw this statement
A group of 5,674 children (3,010 boys and 2,664 girls) with genetic susceptibility to T1D was followed from birth to the age of six.and this closing to the post:
It is, however, too early to make any dietary recommendations.Worse, less than 1.7% of the study children developed T1. That's less than a margin of error.Professor Virtanen says, "Many of the foods that we found to be associated with increased risk of type 1 diabetes and the disease process are considered part of a healthy diet, and it is important that our results are replicated in other studies before anyone considers making changes to their child's diet."
Conversely, it could be argued that
...eating fruit, oats and rye in childhood is associated with a higher probability of AVOIDING the development of T1 diabetes.
Overwhelmingly, in fact.
This is clickbait level BS, especially in an environment in which so many studies are being retracted.
Is this a trend? What happened to MedXpress? DIE hires? [rhetorical; imho it sure seems to be]
smh
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