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...severe has made it more difficult to handle. Until recently, many physicians believed Type II was largely innocuous and counseled patients not to worry. True, many Type II diabetics never require insulin and get by on pills that stimulate the pancreas to produce the hormone. Over time, however, they develop the same terrible complications as their Type I counterparts. University of Michigan's Dr. Stefan Fajans vividly remembers the autoworker he diagnosed with Type II diabetes at age 41. Twenty years later the man was blind and had had one leg amputated. He died a short time later...
...those who develop Type II diabetes are obese. The tendency of obesity to increase with age largely explains why this disease attacks predominantly people over the age of 40. In obese people, cells quickly become sated and sluggish. They reduce their sensitivity to insulin and, thus, their appetite for glucose. To compensate, the pancreas heroically pumps out more and more insulin. Usually it is able to keep up with the work load. As Dr. Jeffrey Flier, an endocrinologist at Beth Israel Hospital, emphasizes, "Most obese people do not have diabetes." In susceptible individuals, however, obesity can overload the system...
...initial stages of the disease, Type II diabetics have a chance to bring their blood sugar back to normal by dropping a modest amount of weight. But not many succeed. Even more than Type I, Type II diabetes appears to run in families. If both parents develop the disease before middle adulthood, the chance a child will contract it runs close to 80%. Diabetes is endemic among many American Indian tribes, notably the Pima Indians of southern Arizona, who have the highest incidence of Type II diabetes in the world (50% of those over...
...mistakenly believe that zapping food with radiation makes it dangerous to eat. The visual inspections carried out routinely in the plants can weed out obviously diseased chickens, but the contamination is usually invisible. A panel of experts convened by the government may recommend soon that the Department of Agriculture develop better tests to detect salmonella...
...insidious, often overlooked killer, high blood sugar affects some 100 million people worldwide. Insulin injections, pills or special diets allow many of them to have normal life-spans, but they may develop eye, nerve and circulatory damage. In the not too distant future, drug treatments and vaccines may stop the affliction cold or block its onset...