Research links Long-Life milk, infant formula to diabetes

[brokenheart]

I regret to death after reading this news.

We are ethnic Chinese, and as researchers say, T1D is pretty rare among Asians.

My son was born in Minnesota in 2001 when I was a student, he wasn't breast-fed because my wife just could not produce any. So he was on formula all the time. When he was only 4 months old, he went to China with his Grandma and we even kept shipping packages of infant formula to China! If this is true, what a mistake!

My son was diagnosed of T1D Nov. 9, 2007.

Neither my wife's side nor my side has anyone who has ever been T1 (or T2) diabetic.

I understand that a lot of kids on formula don't get T1D because there is also a gene factor. But my guess is that my son may not get T1D if he was not triggered off by infant formula or whatever environmental trigger it is, assuming he is genetically prone to T1D.

I feel so sorry for my son that I cannot hold up my tears.

http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NationalNews/ResearchlinksLongLifemilkinfantformulatodiabetes/tabid/184/articleID/51284/cat/64/Default.aspx

Research links Long-Life milk, infant formula to diabetes
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:54a.m.


Climbing rates of type-1 diabetes could be linked to baby formula and long-life milk products, a New Zealand researcher says.

Professor Bob Elliott presented his theory at a public forum in Wellington yesterday at the end of the International Diabetes Federation's regional congress, the Dominion Post newspaper reported.

Prof Elliott said type-1 diabetes cases had shot up over the past 20 to 30 years.

He linked this to the uptake of long-life ultra heat treated milk and infant formula made with A1 milk (milk containing the A1 beta-casein protein).

The heating process produced high levels of glycotoxins which are associated with type-1 diabetes and the manufacturing process involves heating the milk four times.

"We are drinking a lot more damaged milk as a result of modern processing," Prof Elliot said.

About half New Zealand's dairy herds produce A1 milk.

[brokenheart]

This professor's brief bio.

http://diabetestalkfest.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=855504%3ATopic%3A6132

[Amy C.]

My son didn't have any milk until he was a year old --he had nothing but breakmilk for the first year. I had to make him eat real food at a year. He was dx'd at 3 year old.

If your son didn't have formula and your wife couldn't produce milk, what food would he have received?

This one study does not prove anything until the same conclusion is reached by other researchers. I haven't looked at the study, but there are other studies showing just the opposite-- that diabetes is not linked to milk.

I suspect there is something in the environment in this country that is the trigger for Diabetes, but I can't prove anything.

Don't blame formula or your wife for your son's diabetes -- the cause simply isn't known.

[buggle]

Please don't blame yourself. My son was breastfed until he was 2.5 years old and never had cow's milk at all until he was 4. After that, he didn't drink it that often. He still got D. I think it's normal for parents to try to scrutinize every decision we've ever made about our children and try to figure out what caused their D. But, we can't ever know and this type of guilt doesn't help our kids or us -- it's the opposite, in fact.

I'm sorry for what happened to our children and I hope that some day the causes of D are more understood to prevent other children having to go through this. But for now, we don't know and if we had known what caused D, we would've done everything in our power to prevent it happening.

[vitamind]

I Agree that it is not productive to beat yourself up over things that happened in the past, especially because you could not have done anything different. The reality is though that a lack of vitamin d is more likely the cause. Most women are lacking in vitamin d and there milk has very little. Even with supplements which are only a tenth of what they should be. I suspect the fact that you are living in Minnesota had more to do with the diabetes than any other factor. It is true that not all d is caused by a lack of vitamin d but a kid in finland is something like 400 times more likely to get diabetes than a kid in central America. The net result of all of this is that you are more likely to get diabetes if you were breast fed. All four of my children were breast fed. Will, dxd 01/16/07 was breast fed for a year. He was also the palest of my kids and my wife and i were vigilent about his having sunblock on. Don't get me wrong I still think that breast feeding is the best thing for kids, but they need vitamin d supplements. Check out Scientific American nov 07 issue for info on a lack of vitamin d.