Diabetes Death And Processed Food

The vital link between the increased deaths from Parkinson, Alzheimer and diabetes with processed food has been finally uncovered by researchers. A team of researchers has revealed that the increased amounts of nitrates found in normal processed food and the environment are strongly related and are the root cause for age-related diseases.

Suzanne de la Monte and colleagues of Rhode Island Hospital (RIH) have proved that there are parallels between the increases in the death rate from diseases like Alzheimer, diabetes and Parkinson and the potential increases in exposure of people to nitrosamines and nitrites that are contained in fertilizers and also in preserved and processed foods.

Commenting on this, De la Monte, professor, Brown University, said that we all have now become nitrosamine generation. He added that people of today have moved to a type of diet that has more nitrates and amines that leads to the more nitrosamine production. He also made note of the fact that the fertilizers that are being used for agriculture are rich in this nitrates and thus indirectly increase our exposure to nitrates. It is a well known fact that nitrates and nitrites are carcinogenic chemical compounds that have resulted in lots of health hazards to both animals and humans.

These chemical compounds are found in many of today’s food products including cured meats, fried bacon, cheese products and also in water and the beer we drink. Alternate form of exposure also occurs from fertilizers, cosmetics, pesticides and through the processing and manufacturing of latex and rubber products. Some of the processed food items like cured meats, ground beef and fried bacon contain more percentage of these amines just because of their rich protein content. Thus these products have high levels of nitrites and nitrates and are responsible for depositing nitrosamines in the food items. These nitrosamines prove fatal as they react with the cells and alter the gene expression and also damage the DNA. Researchers said that the role of nitrosamines as a carcinogen has been full studied and well documented.

This study was also published in the Journal of Alzheimer’ Disease.