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Diabetes Mellitus & Dairy Food Consumption
Summary Points
- Diabetes is a common disorder. It is a genetic disease that can be influenced by lifestyle choices.
- The population with diabetes is growing.
- Diabetes is divided into two groups for clinical management.
- Type 1, the most severe of the diabetes disorders results from destruction of the insulin producing cells.
- Insulin producing cells can be destroyed either by a virus or by the body that does not recognize its own proteins.
- This lack of recognition is called autoimmune disease. We do not know what causes the autoimmune process to get started.
- Some people have suggested that milk protein could be a causative agent. However, research on this idea has shown that milk is not involved.
- Type 2 diabetes is the most common clinical form and is frequently associated with excess body fat.
- Intervention strategies that target fat gain have been successful in intervening with the development of type 2 diabetes.
- Other intervention strategies include the increase in oleic acid consumption. A Mediterranean diet provides this increase.
- Dairy fat is a rich source of oleic acid. Intervention studies using dairy fat should be conducted.
- Dairy foods may also have other unique characteristics that might be valuable in diabetes intervention or management.
- There is evidence that adequate magnesium intake promotes healthy insulin and blood glucose levels. Since dairy foods provide up to 16% of the dietary magnesium in the food supply, they could play an active role in diabetes intervention and management.
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