The results of a study published in Nature Medicine titled "Pathway to diabetes", has revealed that high fat diets can lead to the onset of diabetes.Normally, pancreatic beta cells (shown on the right) monitors your bloodstream for glucose. When your blood glucose is high, healthy beta cells take in glucose and secrete insulin into your bloodstream. The insulin then alerts other cells in your body to take in glucose.
However, it has been found that high fatty diets interfere with this healthy process of processing high glucose levels. In other words, high fat diets prevent pancreatic beta cells from sensing and responding to blood glucose. Diminished glucose sensing ability by pancreatic beta cells is a determinant of type 2 diabetes.
This is another good reason to eat a Mediterranean type of diet, which is high in fruit and vegetable consumption and low in fat and fatty meat consumption. Since one common factor of all that have type 2 diabetes is obesity, it is also important to stay in a healthy weight range.
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