After a two-year investigation, Professors Kaushik Desai and Lily Wu have discovered diets high in carbohydrates are probably a mechanism for the skyrocketing rates of Type 2 diabetes.
The work by Kaushik Desai and Lily Wu, professors in the U of S College of Medicine's Department of Pharmacology, focused on methylglyoxal (MG), which is produced naturally as the body metabolizes glucose consumed in carbohydrates.
What they have found is that high levels of MG produce all the features of Type 2 diabetes, including damage to insulin producing cells in the pancreas, insulin resistance and impairment of body tissue to use glucose properly. Their findings are set to be published in the March issue of the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes.
http://www.medicine.usask.ca/academic-units/support-units/communications/news/pharmacology-researchers-link-high-carb-diet-to-type-2-diabetes.html
What they have found is that high levels of MG produce all the features of Type 2 diabetes, including damage to insulin producing cells in the pancreas, insulin resistance and impairment of body tissue to use glucose properly. Their findings are set to be published in the March issue of the American Diabetes Association journal Diabetes.
http://www.medicine.usask.ca/academic-units/support-units/communications/news/pharmacology-researchers-link-high-carb-diet-to-type-2-diabetes.html
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