Is Golf Causing Diabetes?

Is Golf Causing Diabetes? Pesticides Commonly Used on Golf Courses Linked to Disease: NIH
How green is your green?
A pesticide commonly used on the turf at golf courses was linked to a whopping 250% increase in diabetes risk to the workers who apply the pesticides, according to one of the largest studies of its kind, by the National Institutes of Health.
The chemical, trichlorfon, was associated with an 85% increase in risk of diabetes for even infrequent users, and a 250% increase in risk for those who had applied it more than 10 times. Of those who used the chemical frequently, 8.5% developed diabetes, versus 3.5% of those who had never used it. The same pesticide has been used to kill cockroaches, crickets, bedbugs, fleas, flies and ticks, but its main current use is on turf, such as at golf courses.

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Eggs and diabetes

A new study confirms what I've been telling my diabetic patients for years: though eating eggs doesn't seem to have a negative effect on the health of most people, those with diabetes need to steer clear of eating too many. Here's what the Harvard Heart Letter said recently about this new study, which was published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in April 2008.
In 1998, a huge study showed that eating an egg a day had no effect on heart disease — except among people with diabetes. This pattern was supported by a new study of 21,000 male physicians whose health was followed for 20 years. Although egg consumption had no effect on rates of heart attack or stroke, men who ate more than seven eggs a week, especially those with diabetes, were more likely to have died during the study. If you are partial to eggs, try egg whites. And skip the bacon and butter-slathered toast.

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Diabetes: Underrated, Insidious and Deadly

In a set of recent focus groups, participants were asked to rank the severity of various health problems, including cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
On a scale of 1 to 10, cancer and heart disease consistently ranked as 9s and 10s. But diabetes scored only 4s and 5s.
“The general consensus seems to be, ‘There’s medication,’ ‘Look how good people look with diabetes’ or ‘I’ve never heard of anybody dying of diabetes,’ ” said Larry Hausner, chief executive of the American Diabetes Association, which held the focus groups. “There was so little understanding about everything that dealt with diabetes.”

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