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Sydney (Australia), May 11 (EFE) .- Excess foods faster people with a family history of diabetes than those without genetic predisposition towards the disease, according to a study published today in Australia.
For a month, the Garvan Institute of Scientific Research of Sydney supercharged a group of 17 people with relatives affected by type 2 diabetes and another of 24 without family history of the disease.
The experiment, conducted by researchers Dorit Samocha-Bonet, Leonie Heilbronn and Lesley Campbell, had the purpose of simulating the gastronomic excesses of a holiday such as Christmas holidays.
After eating an extra of 1,250 calories daily, people with family history increased on average 3.4 kilograms, compared to 2.2 kilograms fatted by the group without genetic predisposition.
In addition, the blood insulin levels of the first group were already greater than three days of starting the study.
According to Professor Campbell, overweight or obesity, which suffers between 80 and 90 percent of type 2 diabetics, are a condition of the disease and not their cause, as commonly thought.
"The same caused by diabetes, makes them gain weight. My theory is that they cannot prevent a genetic predisposition," said Campbell, whose study was published in the international magazine "Diabetology."
Type 2 of diabetes is a highly hereditary condition in which the body does not use insulin properly, which increases blood sugar levels that harm the heart, nervous system and kidneys.
This modality affects more than 90 percent of the people who have diagnosed diabetes.EFE
