Pesticides and living on a very high mountain can increase diabetes risk

Reading through all the diabetic news today, I saw a trend. There are apparently 10 billion things that cause or increase your risk for diabetes. I always take what I read with a grain of salt. Here are two examples of what I found.

They are now saying that sunlight, vitamin D, helps prevent the occurrence of type 1 diabetes among children.  Which means the opposite, children living in higher altitudes, will have an increased risk of developing type 1 diabetes.

Ultraviolet B (UVB) exposure triggers photosynthesis of vitamin D3 in the skin. This form of vitamin D also is available through diet and supplements.

Thoughts?

Now the second cause of diabetes that I saw today… long term pesticide use.

Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations between specific pesticides and incident diabetes ranged from a 20 percent to a 200 percent increase in risk, said the scientists with the NIH’s National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

The only clue given to why this might occur was the fact that all seven of these pesticides are chlorinated. That is all the further the research went. What do you think?

via Science Daily