Type II Diabetes in children in India increased 4 X in 20 years – Nov 2016

Diabetes in young goes up four-fold: Experts

Type II Diabetes is now 23% of all diabetics aged 0-25

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See also Vitamin D Life

• 4 percent less type 2 diabetes for every 4 ng more vitamin D – meta-analysis May 2013
• Diabetes treated by vitamin D when levels exceeded 61 ng – Sept 2015
• Magnesium is associated with prevention and treatment of Diabetes – Meta-analysis Aug 2016
• Type II Diabetes might be prevented and treated with Magnesium – Review Feb 2015
• Vitamin D receptor gene associated with 50 percent more type 2 Diabetes – meta-analyses 2013, 2016
• Obesity lowers vitamin D which increases probability of diabetes in children – Nov 2011
• Children in India – 1 in 7 extremely low Vitamin D, 1 in 10 prediabetic – Sept 2019
• Incidence of 22 health problems related to vitamin D have doubled in a decade

Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains the following summary

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 454 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• Appears that Calcium and Magnesium are needed for both Prevention and Treatment
  • which are just some of the vitamin D cofactors

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:

• Dark Skin 22;   Intervention 49;   Meta-analysis 28;   Obesity 26;  Pregnancy 39;   T1 (child) 34;  Omega-3 10;  Vitamin D Receptor 18;  Genetics 10;  Magnesium 18    Click here to see details