"Rising mortality rates for diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease in recent decades parallel increased exposure to nitrosamines in the food supply and environment, researchers found.Nutritional doublethink.
Nitrosamines, nitrates, and nitrites can induce DNA damage, oxidative stress, cell death, and cancer, and they have been associated with insulin resistance, according to Suzanne de la Monte, MD, MPH, of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, and colleagues.
Insulin resistance is a characteristic of normal aging, as well as of diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and Parkinson's disease. Rates of these diseases have increased so rapidly in recent decades that genetics likely can't explain what is happening, the researchers said in the July issue of the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.
'Epidemiological trends support exposure rather than genetic causes of these diseases,' they said.
They proposed that exposure to nitrates, nitrites, and nitrosamines -- through the food supply, smoking, and use of products such as fertilizers -- might be to blame...
Some nitrosamines are deliberately added to foods for various reasons. Sodium nitrite, for instance is added to meat and fish to prevent toxin production by Clostridium botulinum. It's also used to preserve, color, and flavor meats."
Still think they have any idea what a "healthy food" is?
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