Why Don't Pigs Get Diabetes Despite Eating and Sleeping?
Whether domestically or internationally, the number of diabetes patients has surged dramatically in recent years. More and more people are also starting to pay attention to this disease.
Although diabetes has the word 'sugar' in it, it doesn't entirely relate to sugar. Diabetes is actually a class of metabolic diseases, formed gradually due to the metabolic system being in a state of long-term incomplete normal metabolic environment.
Some people have succinctly summarized the common causes of diabetes: 'eating too much, eating the wrong things, and less exercise.' This prompted someone to ask:Why don't pigs, who eat and move much more than humans, get diabetes?
Of course, I was also curious about the answer, so I consulted Baidu. Most netizens believe that pigs have a short lifespan and haven't reached the age of diabetes before they are served on the table.
Then there's another question: the age of diabetes diagnosis has been declining year by year, and it's not uncommon for teenagers and even young children to be diagnosed with diabetes.
This shows that age is one of the factors. The real reason is not so simple.
This interesting question has been of concern to researchers early on, so they conducted a tracking experiment.
They released domestic pigs into the natural environment. These pigs, which had carefree feeding, changed their lives. In order to survive, the pigs had to forage, alternating between hunger and fullness, and their exercise volume increased,
After a period of time, these pigs that had been released back into captivity,
After a period of time, these pigs were found to have abnormal glucose tolerance, or even diabetes,
At this point, the answer seems obvious: captive pigs are less likely to get diabetes, while those who have undergone a difficult life returned to a comfortable environment and then easily developed diabetes.
Let's analogize this to humans, tracing back to the evolutionary process of humans over hundreds of millions of years. For almost a billion years, humans essentially lived a life of alternating between hunger and fullness, with only rulers or nobles enjoying a life of abundance.
Diabetes was once known as 'rich man's disease'. This is because, during that period, almost only wealthy people had the opportunity to get diabetes. This was largely because their living and dietary conditions had improved, making them the first group of people to develop diabetes.
Now, diabetes seems to have no class distinction.
Combining these two points, it's likely that many people have guessed: the change in lifestyle has led to a large outbreak of diabetes in humans.
Over hundreds of millions of years, due to the limitations of the living environment, humans have formed a gene that prefers to eat less and move more.
But now, with changes in living conditions and environment, we eat and consume more, and there are too few places to exercise. However, these genes are difficult to change in a short time, so they can't immediately accept these external changes, and it's easier to develop diabetes.
Therefore,For populations in the past with insufficient nutritional conditions, after the improvement of living nutritional environment, it is important not to overindulge and overeat, to eat less and move more. Because, relatively speaking, these populations are more likely to develop diabetes after living nutritional environment improvement.
Finally, in the face of so many delicious foods, we must control ourselves, take a little taste before stopping. In the face of difficult-to-persist exercise, we must grit our teeth and continue.
The suffering of diabetic patients is only understood when you actually get diabetes. We hope that those who see this article will never have this opportunity forever.
