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Diabetes Mellitus & Dairy Food Consumption
Summary
It is obvious that diabetes mellitus is "on the rise" in the United States. The most striking increases are in the number of persons with type 2 diabetes, although the number of people with type 1 is rising as well. Both adults and children have the disease and it has been suggested that diabetes is truly a disease that develops as a result of a nutrient-gene interaction. One hypothesis involving such an interaction concerns the ingestion of cow’s milk and type 1 diabetes. This hypothesis has been disproven. Other hypotheses include the interaction of genetic background and excess energy intake. The results of intervention studies to reduce obesity suggest that diabetes development can be prevented. There is little research in humans either with respect to interventions or with respect to how specific attributes of dairy foods are involved in diabetes prevention. Intervention studies using dairy foods are needed. Studies in rodents suggest that dairy foods could play an active role in interventions that target specific diabetes genotypes and specific components of glucose homeostasis. Research is needed to provide tools for easily identifying human diabetes genotypes as well as showing that a dairy food-gene interaction could occur in a beneficial way.
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