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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 376405" data-attributes="member: 55568">The country with the highest incidence of diabetes is Nauru and the cause is thought to be due to a shift away from traditional foods such as fish and coconuts to diets high in refined carbohydrates and cheap, high fat beef and lamb offcuts which are typically exported to South Pacific nations from New Zealand and Australia because they are unfit for either local consumption or export to the more lucrative European markets. I know that the use of a growth hormone in american beef is banned in the EU and as a result the USA have retaliated with high import tariffs on foods which are popular imports from certain countries. In the case of the UK, they targetted jams so a small jar of TipTree marmalade costs $10 - $12 in the 'land of the free'.Growth hormone is known to increase insulin resitance:'Growth hormone induces cellular insulin resistance by uncoupling phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase and its downstream signals in 3T3-L1 adipocytes.'<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11473053" target="_blank">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11473053</a></blockquote>

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