This may be part of the reason that cancer rates and
diabetes rates seem to be rising at about the same pace.
Not exact matches
Breastfed infants, compared with formula - fed infants, also
seem to have stronger immune systems to fight infection, resulting in lower
rates of chronic childhood diseases, such as
diabetes, celiac disease, inflammatory bowel disease, childhood cancer, and allergies and asthma.
Armed with a better understanding of the tools needed to detect such genes, it
seems inevitable that the
rate of progress will increase and the relevance of genetic information to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of
diabetes will become increasingly tangible.
If that (simplified) narrative is accurate, and if we live in a society that is becoming increasingly insensitive to the effects of insulin (and that
seems a sure thing giving increasing Type 2
diabetes rates) then heart disease would also have to be on the rise.
Even a minimal increase
seemed to up their
diabetes rates, according to a study at Uppsala University.