Sugar Rush: The progress of a disease over thirty years
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#2It would be interesting to see if smoking among the French, particularly French women, coincided with a drop in rates of diabetes.
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#3Always surprised to see how diabetes coverage in the popular press blurs the difference between Type I ("juvenile") and Type II ("adult onset").
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#4It would be interesting to see if smoking among the French, particularly French women, coincided with a drop in rates of diabetes.
Of the few observational studies I've read, smoking only increases your chance of developing Type 2.
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#5What's going on in Spain?
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#6It would be interesting to see if smoking among the French, particularly French women, coincided with a drop in rates of diabetes.
I'm pretty sure smoking rates dropped in France too. It's just that they were always pretty high. So no global correlation there.
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#7Lets hear it for High Fructose Corn Syrup!
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#8I was pleasantly surprised to see this called "Sugar Rush"- making it appear to be common sense to keep your blood sugar levels low if you have diabetes. Yet the ADA (American Diabetes Association) tells everyone to eat low-fat (high-carb) diets.
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#9The difference between North America and Western Europe is quite striking. Is that really mostly due to HFCS?
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#10The difference between North America and Western Europe is quite striking. Is that really mostly due to HFCS?
Almost certainly due to lower obesity rates, rather than the negligible difference between normal sugar and HFCS.