(NaturalNews) Back in 1890, about one American child out of every 100,000 died each year from type 1 diabetes. Fast forward to the 21st century and the number is as high as 24. Each year, scientists estimate that the number of deaths among children due to type 1, or juvenile, diabetes increases by three percent with no signs of slowing down.
Type 2 diabetes, the kind most often associated with obesity and excessive sugar consumption, is often referenced in media reports and medical journals as increasing at a dangerously high rate, but type 1 is rarely addressed despite the fact that it is rising at a similar rate.
Dan Hurley, an investigative journalist who was diagnosed with type 1
diabetes in 1975, is compiling a report on his findings about the
disease, noting that it is much more prevalent than people have been led to believe. Evidence is showing that, despite the widespread belief that type 1 diabetes is rare and develops from a genetic predisposition,
juvenile diabetes is probably being triggered by environmental or lifestyle factors in a similar manner as type 2.
In his book, Hurley outlines five potential
causes of the disease and its rapid increase. These include a lack of natural sunlight
exposure, the destruction of
natural skin pathogens that create immunity, exposure to cow’s
milk at a young age, persistent exposure to pollutants and carcinogens, and the accelerated production of insulin-producing beta cells due to overall growth in height and weight averages among
children.
Hurley believes that a comprehensive, national tracking system of type 1 diabetes cases will help researchers to determine the causes of the disease.
Comments by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Someday western
medicine will catch up to the truth that the natural
health community already knows: That drinking pasteurized, processed cow's milk can promote
autoimmune disorders such as
type-1 diabetes.
Vitamin D deficiency, meanwhile, is an epidemic in our western world, and if you take a vitamin D deficient population and pump all the people full of vaccines and dairy products, it shouldn't be a big surprise to start seeing a huge rise in autoimmune
disorders like type-1 diabetes.
But conventional medicine, as usual, remains entirely clueless about the real causes of type-1 diabetes (or even cancer or diabetes, for that matter). And because the medical system refuses to acknowledge the fact that environmental influences (
chemicals, dietary choices, etc.) can cause these conditions, it is unable to offer any solutions for
patients. So patients are simply put on a lifetime regimen of dangerous pharmaceutical chemicals instead of being taught real solutions for avoiding autoimmune disorders altogether.
It's just another day in the U.S. sick-care system, it seems...
Sources for this story include:http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/kp-iot010410.php
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