In a message dated 11/08/1999 12:16:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << The final answer is not out for the cause of juvenile diabees but there is a convincing case that it's related to a combination of: Immune disturbance due to neolithic (non-paleo) food toxins A particular virus Can't remember how much the genetics came into it, but they must. >> Simplistic, mechanistic & reductionistic --- as well as being totally speculative and all wrong for juvenile onset diabetes. Convincing only to the convinced.