Can Infant Nutrition Prevent Type 1 Diabetes?

Filed in archive Research on December 7, 2006

Some scientists think so. Long viewed as unpreventable, does Type 1 diabetes still have ultimate power over who it affects?
Maybe not, with some nutritional adjustments in infancy.

The TRIGR study is the first study ever aimed at primary prevention of type 1 diabetes. The study is designed to answer to the question whether excluding cow's milk protein from the infant's diet decreases the risk of fu-ture diabetes. All subjects are followed for 10 years to get information on whether the dietary recommendations for infants at increased genetic risk of type 1 diabetes should be revised.

It looks like any definitive results will be a long time coming, but it certainly is an intriguing possibility.