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Diabetes: regulating your blood sugar naturally

12 March 1998

Diabetes mellitus is an old and complex disease. It can strike anyone in any family at any time, though it is most common among affluent Westerners. The incidence of this autoimmune disease has tripled over the last eight years and, today, over 100 million people around the world have the condition. Nearly a third of these are in Europe. In children, diabetes is one of the fastest growing illnesses, and contracting it can mean a lifetime on medication and the risk of kidney disease later in life.

There are two main types of diabetes. Type I - also known as insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM) or juvenile-onset diabetes - is less common than type II diabetes - also known as non-insulin-dependent diabetes (NIDDM) or mature-onset diabetes.

There is now strong evidence that environmental factors may play the largest part in the development of diabetes; these include obesity, physical inactivity, dietary fat intake, cigarette smoking and alcohol cons...

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