Posted on 06/24/2018 6:13:40 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The team examined 11 pancreas specimens, eight of which were from donors who had Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and three from donors who did not. Whereas the three non-diabetic pancreatic tissue specimens contained no detectable TiO2 crystals, the crystals were detected in all of the eight T2D pancreatic tissue specimens. The UT Austin researchers found more than 200 million TiO2 crystallites per gram of TiO2 particles in the specimens from T2D donors but not in the three specimens from non-diabetic donors. They published their findings last month in the journal Chemical Research in Toxicology.
In the mid-20th century, titanium dioxide pigment replaced highly toxic lead-based pigments. It became the most commonly used white pigment in paints and in foods, medications, toothpaste, cosmetics, plastics and paper. As a result, annual production of titanium dioxide has increased by 4 million tons since the 1960s.
According to the World Health Organization, the number of people with diabetes has quadrupled during the past four decades, affecting approximately 425 million people, with T2D comprising the majority of recorded cases. Although obesity and an aging population are still considered major factors leading to a rise in T2D cases worldwide, Heller's study suggests that increased use of titanium dioxide may also be linked to the rapid rise in the number of people suffering from the disease.
"The increased use of titanium dioxide over the last five decades could be a factor in the Type 2 diabetes epidemic," Heller said. "The dominant T2D-associated pancreatic particles consist of TiO2 crystals, which are used as a colorant in foods, medications and indoor wall paint, and they are transported to the pancreas in the bloodstream.
I hope there’s science behind this claim, like cytotoxic properties of TIO2.
>>”The increased use of titanium dioxide over the last five decades could be a factor in the Type 2 diabetes epidemic,”
Could be...but as a person with Type 2 diabetes, I know that it is almost entirely lifestyle and food choices: work, stress, eating on the run, comfort foods to make the whole day as a cog in the Great Machine seem like it was worth it, etc.
Sample size of 11. Hilarious.
>>It became the most commonly used white pigment in paints and in foods, medications, toothpaste, cosmetics, plastics and paper. As a result, annual production of titanium dioxide has increased by 4 million tons since the 1960s.
Like most dishonest studies, the use of the and...and statement to bump up the numbers is misleading. Most of that titanium dioxide increase is in the ultra-white paper that we demand now. First we had the 92 Brightness, then the 94, then the 96. If you burn old paper, you get ash. If you burn a piece of high brightness paper, you get clay.
Diet is such a factor...perhaps the old meat and potato meals are more in keeping with what we SHOULD be eating.
At the same time, it appears to be hereditary.
This might be worth a real study, but the sample base was far too narrow to mean much. The age of the person providing the samples could be a major factor in why some have the crystals and some do not.
The simplest implication of their results is not that titanium oxide is causing diabetes, but that it is a common additive in high-sugar industrial food products.
The immunomodulatory effects of titanium dioxide and silver nanoparticles.
Interaction of titanium dioxide nanoparticles with glucose on young rats after oral administration.
Don’t snort the white paint!
Or, more seriously, if ceiling paint is found to be somewhat hazardous, we are all in trouble.
The question not being asked here is why are heavy metal compounds going in our food? That doesn’t seem healthy.
Did they put it in Wonder-Bread?
Where is the link you copied the text from. I like sources, please.
Exactly. Sample size means this paper is sketchy at best. From 3 specimens they draw a conclusion?
At best this seems like an indication of where science could look. But science has not been done yet. No doubt the underlying paper is a suggestion of the need for more research funds. I have no problem with that, as long as everyone sees it for what it is.
I apologize for not getting the source link in my thread posting:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180620125907.htm
Could you please put the URL and the source of “ScienceDaily” into the thread header?
Could you please put the URL and the source of “ScienceDaily” into the thread header?
Oh for days when science was science and scientific papers sacrosanct.
You post a ton of diabetes articles. Do you suffer from it?
No, but many do here on Free Republic and many others could follow them without changes.
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