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Articles tagged with: Diabetes
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Social media posts wrongly claim that herbs can cure every disease including cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s
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“There is a cure to every d!isease”; herbs can cure cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook
Published: 17 Nov 2023
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No cure for diabetes currently exists; Facebook posts claiming otherwise use manipulated videos of news to promote fake diabetes cure
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“New medicine normalizes blood sugar levels after the first use”
SOURCE: Anonymous, Facebook
Published: 07 Nov 2023
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Viral video makes inaccurate claims regarding sugar; suggests it causes medical conditions like cancer and ADHD
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Sugar causes ADHD in babies, dementia and Alzheimer's in adults, cancer
SOURCE: Social media users, Facebook, Twitter, TikTok
Published: 27 Oct 2023
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Type 2 diabetes is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s, but evidence so far doesn’t show that diabetes causes Alzheimer’s
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“Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”
SOURCE: Social media users, TikTok, Facebook
Published: 15 Oct 2022
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