TV and newspapers reported earlier this year that due to their diet Sardo's have one of the longest life expectancies in the world, but if Canadian web site CBC is correct maybe we're not getting the whole story.
It turns out that the area on the planet with the highest level of Type 1 diabetes is the sunny, sunny Italian island of Sardinia. Novosibirsk in Siberia (think a locale situated north of Flin Flon), had an incidence rate less than one-third that of Kuwait, two-and-a-half times lower than Puerto Rico, and below that of Sao Paolo and parts of Tunisia.
"We are extremely interested in the high rates of Type 1 diabetes in Sardinia. It is anyone's guess about the reasons, " said Cedric Garland, Diego professor of family and preventative medicine at University of California at San and author of the report.
"Our guess is that it could be that some residents of the island have an unusual dietary intake pattern, or a higher-than-usual prevalence of an inborn defect in metabolism of vitamin D that interferes with absorption, metabolism or action of vitamin D."
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