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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Geocacher" data-source="post: 376270" data-attributes="member: 32611">I'd rather see someone trying to find a reason why so many people are becoming diabetic.Diet and lifestyle may play a role, but that can't be the only answer or this wouldn't be just a plague of the 21st century.  Sedentary lifestyles and overindulgence are not new to the human race, and isn't it interesting that our pets, which rarely had problems with weight unless someone was feeding them a completely inappropriate diet, are now obese or diabetic on the same type of food previous generations of pets ate without problems.  Recent studies have shown that normal healthy people will put on weight if they are fed high calorie foods but return to their normal weight quickly when allowed to resume their normal diet.  What is it that is different about some people that prevents their bodies from doing the same?It would be nice to at least know what it is in the modern diet, or whatever genetic, or more likely epigentic, change it is that makes so many of us diabetic.  After hearing 30 years ago about a virus that makes chickens gain weight at an abnormal rate, I wonder if it isn't modern methods of raising animals that is too blame.  Reports at the time indicated that antibodies to the virus were also found in humans.  I find it no great surprise that those reports correlate with the start of the obesity epidemic.if you think that eating an abnormally restricted diet is somehow a 'cure' for diabetes simply because it bring blood sugar levels down to a 'normal' level you're wrong.  Give any supposedly cured diabetic the diet that a non-diabetic would consume and you will find that person is still diabetic.  Living a restricted lifestyle is necessary for us, I don't think any of us would choose it if it weren't for diabetes.</blockquote>

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