A ground (no pun intended) breaking study by environmental-health scientists from the University of Granada in Spain have found a direct link between pesticide chemicals and diabetes, which helps to explain the rise in the condition over the last decade.
The study, published in the journal Environmental Research, says that people with higher concentrations of DDE- derived from the pesticide DDT- are four times as likely to to develop type 2 diabetes than others. Exposure to a chemical in the common pesticide Lindano also increases your risk.
"The mechanism of action by which (chemicals) increase the risk of diabetes is still unknown," says lead researcher Juan Pedro Arrebola. "However, some researchers have suggested that (pesticides) might cause an immunological response when they penetrate estrogen receptors in tissues associated with the metabolism of sugars."
Arrebola and colleagues analyzed concentrations of certain chemicals in the fat tissue of 386 adult patients of San Cecilo hospital, Granada, Santa Ana hospital, Motril, Spain. Human fat tissues "can store potentially harmful substances, such as persistent organic pollutants" like chemical pesticides or industrial waste when ingested through food, or absorbed through the air, water, or skin.
What the doctors found was a direct correlation between chemicals in the body and type 2 diabetes, regardless of age, weight, or gender. Since these chemicals love to concentrate in body fat, it explains why more obese people are developing diabetes.
Reference: News Health Max
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