- Accepting that someone created the universe helps sufferers, scientists say
- It encourages patients with the preventable condition to adopt a healthier diet
- Feeling safe under God’s care helps patients plan meal times with their partner
- Eating together helps scrap the urge to eat junk food and products high in sugar
- This helps to control the condition and stop it from becoming deadly, they say
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Believing in God could help to combat type 2 diabetes, controversial new research suggests.
Accepting that someone created and now rules the universe encourages sufferers of the deadly condition to adopt a healthier diet.
Feeling safe under God’s care makes it easier for patients to plan a healthy diet with their partner, the study claims.
Eating together helps to scrap the urge to consume junk food and products high in sugar that could exacerbate the preventable condition.
Often thought of as harmless, type 2 diabetes is a hidden killer and can lead to heart failure, blindness, kidney disease and leg amputations.
Accepting that someone created and now rules the universe encourages sufferers of type 2 diabetes to adopt a healthier diet, experts say
But critics argue the Florida State University findings could be dangerous, and aren’t based on enough evidence.
Oliver Jelley, editor of The Diabetes Times, told MailOnline: ‘We urge caution over the findings of this controversial research.
‘All medical knowledge should be based on established research.’
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How was the study carried out?
For the study, the researchers surveyed 87 couples where one of the spouses had type 2 diabetes.
Their use of religious coping and shared glycemic control activities, such as sticking to a diet together, were measured.
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Researchers from from the US and Malaysia found that since religious groups preach against contraception, they tend to have more children than those who label themselves as atheists.
The team sampled more than 4,000 students attending different colleges in both the US and Malaysia, who were asked about their beliefs and number of siblings.
In Malaysia, Muslim families had an average of 5.89 children and 4.29 in the US.
The second most fertile parents in Malaysia were Hindus with 4.01 children – but this was a small sample of only five students.
Atheists living in Malaysia had an average of 3.67 children and parents of US students that were also not part of a religious group had 3.04.
Christians living in the US had 3.11 children and Catholics had 3.42.
Religious coping was defined as either positive, where they appreciated God’s love and care, or negative, when they casted doubt over his existence.
Volunteers were asked to respond to various statements about their connection with God on a scale of one to four, with four being the greatest signal of agreement.
What did they find?
They found that doing things together as a couple, such as planning a diet, was significantly associated with glycemic control.
If the diabetic patient was a non-believer, they were less likely to adhere to such beneficial plans with their spouse.
However, if the lover who didn’t have the condition was a believer in God then they were able to keep their partner on track through shared glycemic control.
Writing in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, the researchers said ‘religious coping and shared glycemic control activities appear integral to couples managing type 2 diabetes and, may serve as useful points of intervention.’
What is type 2 diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is caused by having too much glucose in the blood because the body’s way of turning it into energy is not working properly.
As the condition progresses, sufferers often need to maintain a healthy diet, exercise and a combination of medications to manage it.
Someone’s life expectancy with type 2 diabetes is likely to be reduced as a result of the condition, by up to 10 years, it is believed.
Other studies
The new findings come two weeks after Indian experts said patients with diabetes should take up yoga to help keep the condition under control.
Doing 45 minutes of the ancient relaxation practice for just ten days can have a dramatic impact on lowering blood sugar levels, they found.
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