No doubts that an excess of sugar intake, lack of physical exercise together with hereditary factors make the situation ripe for development of diabetes...but off lately another new factor has been added into this list. According to a recent study, improved hygiene and clean environmental living conditions have added into the risk of diabetes particularly the type 1 diabetes.
Trends show that cases of type-1 diabetes have become five-fold in children over the last 20 years.
“It could be a result of people being exposed to fewer infections. Some scientists believe this is why rates of asthma are also rising. The immune system is supposed to fight infection but in asthma and type 1 diabetes it gets misdirected,” opines a researcher Polly.
The increase is too sharp and fast to be blamed upon genetic factors, so changes in environment can be another major cause, details of which are still to be identified and discussed in detail.
