Heavy metals scientifically linked to causing diabetes

Heavy metals scientifically linked to causing diabetes:

(NaturalNews) Fifty years ago, it was virtually unheard of. But today, diabetes mellitus, a serious metabolic disorder, afflicts more than 150 million people globally, with a bulk of this number hailing from North America. And researchers out of Asia, having published their findings back in 2009, exposed toxic heavy metals as a major, and perhaps even primary, contributor to this growing disease epidemic.

Reflective of sobering statistics released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showing that diabetes prevalence increased nearly 50 percent between the years of 1991 and 2000, the study looked at the effects of heavy metals in vitro (in a test tube), in vivo (in living organisms) and in human subjects. The metals zinc, arsenic, cadmium, mercury and nickel were all evaluated.