Benefits of a Diabetes Meal Plan
For nearly 40 years it has been common Diabetes Masterclass Review knowledge and generally accepted fact that certain minority groups have had a gene that made them predisposed to the awful disease of diabetes.Just yesterday it was announced that a group of Australian and U.S. researchers are close to dispelling the myth. The findings are published in the spring issue of the journal 'Perspectives in Biology and Medicine'.
"Our study challenges the presumption that Native American, Mexican American, African American, Australian Aborigine, or other indigenous groups are genetically prone to diabetes because the evidence demonstrates that higher rates of diabetes across population groups can be explained by non-genetic factors alone." said Michael Montoya an Anthropologist at UC Irvine.
"When it comes to diabetes, we're finding that genes are no more important for ethnic minorities than for anyone else," said Stephanie Fullerton, a population geneticist and bio-ethicist at the University of Washington and co-author of the study.The study goes on to point out that in most of the previous studies on contributing genes to diabetes inadequate controls were in place for things such as social and environmental factors. Examples were poverty, housing segregation, and poor diet.