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...study, published in last week’s issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, follows the incidence of insulin resistance syndrome, a condition that can lead to diabetes as well as heart disease...
Mark Pereira, an epidemiologist at the Children’s Hospital and HMS who oversaw the study, said insulin resistance can occur in obese individuals because they have a compromised ability to process insulin. The study showed that for overweight people, consuming dairy products more than five times a day, as opposed to only once, can reduce the risk of insulin resistance syndrome by 72 percent...
...There is an increased concern over insulin resistance syndrome because it is so prevalent in the U.S.,” Pereira said. “One in four Americans is affected, so it’s becoming a public health problem...
Pereira said the change in the body’s ability to use insulin, caused by obesity, is what often leads to Type 2 diabetes. That is the mild form of non-insulin dependant diabetes that is characterized by glucose intolerance, rather than the more severe Type 1 diabetes which is characterized by an inability to produce insulin...
Melton will attempt to use embryonic stem cells to develop pancreatic cells that replenish insulin levels—but he says he expects only five percent of the donated embryos to yield viable embryonic stem cell lines...