What Causes Diabetes?
Subscribe for free to Dr. Greger's videos at: bit.ly/nutritionfactsupdates DESCRIPTION: Saturated fat can be toxic to the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas, explaining why animal fat consumption can impair insulin secretion, not just insulin sensitivity. This is an installment in my year-long intermittent video series on the intricacies on the development of diabetes. Here are the first four with a bunch more to come: • What Causes Insulin Resistance? (nutritionfacts.org/what-causes-insulin-resistance) • The Spillover Effect Links Obesity to Diabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/the-spillover-effect-links-obesity-to-diabetes) • Lipotoxicity: How Saturated Fat Raises Blood Sugar (nutritionfacts.org/video/lipotoxicity-how-saturated-fat-raises-blood-sugar) • Diabetes as a Disease of Fat Toxicity (nutritionfacts.org/video/Diabetes-as-a-Disease-of-Fat-Toxicity) Separate from the series is what we can actually do about preventing it: • Eggs and Diabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/eggs-and-diabetes/) • Fish and Diabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/fish-and-diabetes/) • Preventing Prediabetes By Eating More (www.nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-prediabetes-by-eating-more/) • Lifestyle Medicine Is the Standard of Care for Prediabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/lifestyle-medicine-is-the-standard-of-care-for-prediabetes/) • How to Prevent Prediabetes from Turning into Diabetes (www.nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-prevent-prediabetes-from-turning-into-diabetes) • How to Prevent Prediabetes in Children (www.nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-prevent-prediabetes-in-children) And treating it: • Diabetics Should Take Their Pulses (www.nutritionfacts.org/video/diabetics-should-take-their-pulses/) • Flaxseed vs. Diabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/flaxseed-vs-diabetes/) • Update on Cinnamon for Blood Sugar Control (nutritionfacts.org/video/update-on-cinnamon-for-blood-sugar-control/) • Plant-Based Diets and Diabetes (nutritionfacts.org/video/Plant-Based-Diets-and-Diabetes) Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-diabetes and he'll try to answer it! www.NutritionFacts.org • Facebook: www.facebook.com/NutritionFacts.org • Twitter: www.twitter.com/nutrition_facts • Podcast: www.bit.ly/NFpodcast • Subscribe: www.bit.ly/nutritionupdates • Donate: www.NutritionFacts.org/donate
