Dietary toxins: digging up the dirt on vegetables

Dietary toxins: digging up the dirt on vegetables [1]

Submitted by admin on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 11:04

Recent research from Australia has implicated infections of common garden vegetables as a possible source of chemicals which cause damage to the pancreas, the organ that makes insulin. This damage could thereby cause Type 1 diabetes, the insulin-dependent form of the disease.

Issue:

Volume 47 | Issue 1 [2]

Author:

Mackay Ian [3]

Myers Mark [4]

Zimmet Paul [5]

Attachment:

article_186_en.pdf [6]

Keywords:

vegetables, risk factors, streptomyces, toxins

Section:

Future Directions [7]

Theme:

Research and studies [8]

Type 1 diabetes [9]

Nutrition [10]