Originally published December 18 2005
Scientists believe pollutants are contributing to rise in type 2 diabetes
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The journal Environmental Health has published a study that suggests a link between the rising rate of type 2 diabetes and exposure to persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs).
The dramatic rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes could be driven in part by exposure to pollutants as well as obesity, according to a study published yesterday.
A link has emerged between the disease and exposure to high levels of persistent organochlorine pollutants (POPs), which are most likely to come from eating fatty fish such as salmon and herring from the Baltic.
However, the professor who led the Scandinavian study of the families of fishermen emphasised that more research was required on the wider implications.
Type 2 diabetes is usually found in older people and complications include heart disease, stroke and blindness.
Currently 1.4 million Britons are diagnosed with diabetes, including 200,000 youngsters with type 1 (juvenile) diabetes.
Up to one million adults have undiagnosed type 2 diabetes and the total is expected to double by 2010.
The study published yesterday in the journal Environmental Health shows that exposure to high levels of POPs, a family of chemicals that includes polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the insecticide DDT, is associated with a high prevalence of type 2 diabetes in fishermen and their wives.
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