Die New York Times hatte vor kurzem einen langen interessanten Artikel "Is Sugar Toxic",in dem ausgeführt wird,dass die kontinuierliche Einnahme von zu viel Zucker sehr wahrscheinlich zu fehlendem Insulin führt und dies wiederum zu Diabetes und dass Wissenschaftler einen Zusammenhang zwischen Diabetes und Krebs sehen. Das Interessante ist,dass sowohl die Japaner ,die sehr wenig Zucker essen als auch die Inuit (Eskimo) bisher kaum Diabetes oder Krebs kennen,solange sie althergebrachte Nahrung essen.Dies gilt eben ganz sicher auch dafür ,dass hier bisher kaum Massentierhaltung bekannt war,beide Völker essen lieber frisch gefangenen Fisch.Eskimos,die modern leben ,kriegen Brustkrebs und Darmkrebs wie andere Bevölkerungsgruppen zeigen kanadische Untersuchungen.Auch Jonathan Safran Foer führt ein ähnliches Beispiel an in seinem Buch. Tatsache ist dass die Todesrate durch Krebs erheblich gestiegen ist http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/...l?pagewanted=1&_r=1 The second observation was that malignant cancer, like diabetes, was a relatively rare disease in populations that didn’t eat Western diets, and in some of these populations it appeared to be virtually nonexistent. In the 1950s, malignant cancer among the Inuit, for instance, was still deemed sufficiently rare that physicians working in northern Canada would publish case reports in medical journals when they did diagnose a case.
In 1984, Canadian physicians published an analysis of 30 years of cancer incidence among Inuit in the western and central Arctic. While there had been a “striking increase in the incidence of cancers of modern societies” including lung and cervical cancer, they reported, there were still “conspicuous deficits” in breast-cancer rates. They could not find a single case in an Inuit patient before 1966; they could find only two cases between 1967 and 1980. Since then, as their diet became more like ours, breast cancer incidence has steadily increased among the Inuit, although it’s still significantly lower than it is in other North American ethnic groups. Diabetes rates in the Inuit have also gone from vanishingly low in the mid-20th century to high today.
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