Coconut Oil and Alzheimer's

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<p>I doubt that very much.</p>

<p>If there is a “reason” for increasing Type II diabetes rates worldwide, it would be the increase in processed, refined food (carbohydrate) consumption – specifically refined sugars and refined grains. This is a global issue: see the distribution of Coca Cola for example.</p>

<p>Actually, perusing the articles, it looks like China may be grabbing the title of Diabetes Capital of the World away from India.</p>

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<p>You can doubt it all you want, but there are multiple sources of medical repute explaining why Indians have a high rate of diabetes, and it is rare for them to be overweight.</p>

<p>There are also multiple sources of medical repute explaining why it is bad for non-Indians of the developed Western world to eat a lot of lipids and animal food.</p>

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<p>OT, a bit far afield from the OP…</p>

<p>Barkers Theory is that “undernourished” infants (in utero, not sure about about after birth) develop insulin rejecting muscles so that more glucose is available as a means of survival…</p>

<p>What studies have been done about this?</p>

<p>I have anecdotal evidence to support this, but low birth weight would not specifically be in the scenarios, just a variety of types under-nourishment both of fetuses and young infants is correlated to a tendency to store in my own family over a few generations. However, it is very important to pin down the “under-nourishment” more specifically: not enough protein? not enough calories? not enough of certain nutrients? at what age or stage of development?</p>

<p>Overly large newborns are correlated to gestational diabetes, and I am not sure of the causes- a hi glycemic diet? too may calories?
Are these post-gestational-diabetes large newborns also prone to Type 2 diabetes later in life?</p>

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<p>Also, coconut MILK, which is sugary, is a major ingredient in Indian cooking.</p>

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<p>Performersmom:</p>

<p>There’s a matching hypothesis that children born to mothers eating high carbohydrate diets, start to develop insulin resistance even in the womb and continue through childhood as they share the family’s high carbohydrate diet. This is being put forth as one theory to explain the increasing rates of infant obesity. Type 2 diabetes used to be called “adult onset diabetes”. They had to change the name because increasing numbers of kids were being diagnosed. All of these theories are pretty much impossible to test, although it is clear that obesity and metabolic syndrome tend to run in families, probably for both genetic and environmental reasons. I suspect there is a genetic predisposition that is “activated” or not based on family dietary habits.</p>

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<p>I’m not aware of much, if any, research actually supporting that hypothesis. In fact, the huge $750 million Women’s Health Initiative Study that was finally supposed to prove that hypothesis instead pretty much drove the nail into the coffin. Here’s how the Harvard School of Public Health summarized the findings that the women on low-fat diets showed no improvement in cardiovascular disease or weight loss.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/nutrition-news/low-fat/[/url]”>http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/nutrition-news/low-fat/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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