Tuesday, August 23, 2011

How Fatty Diets Cause Diabetes

How Fatty Diets Cause Diabetes

This was the provocative title of the Science Daily piece that made a minor splash across the LC web recently.  Perhaps overshadowed by the AHS drama and fallout, but nonetheless picked up on by a number of people.  The article begins with:
Newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics tend to have one thing in common: obesity. Exactly how diet and obesity trigger diabetes has long been the subject of intense scientific research. A new study led by Jamey D. Marth, Ph.D., director of the Center for Nanomedicine, a collaboration between the University of California, Santa Barbara and Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute (Sanford-Burnham), has revealed a pathway that links high-fat diets to a sequence of molecular events responsible for the onset and severity of diabetes.
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