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New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by AbsoluteCabbage »

cyounkins wrote: post #79
prirun wrote: post #74

My personal, unsubstantiated opinion is that the food most people eat is now full of substances and chemicals that weren't there 50 years ago. A huge example is high fructose corn syrup. Almost everything is sweetened with that instead of cane sugar. Food manufacturers IMO only care about making food cheap, making us crave it, and making it last a long time on the shelf. They aren't concerned about making sure it is…

High fructose corn syrup is a very poor example. It is composed of fructose and glucose, both very familiar molecules to our bodies.

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Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by epistasis »

candiddevmike wrote: post #44
tsol wrote: post #39

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CGM's are fairly recent technology and they're all very expensive right now

According to Wikipedia, first CGM was approved in 1999. That may be recent for medical devices I guess, but it still seems like they're charging a lot for 20+ year old tech...

CGMs have improved a ton in the past 20 years, becoming less intrusive and easier to use.

We pay a lot more than $150 for all sorts of tech that is far more than 20 years old. But if you could make it for $20 or $30/month, that would be a serious innovation and perhaps you should try to start an advanced medical device company.

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by rcme »

candiddevmike wrote: post #15

I've been suffering from hypoglycemia for a good part of my life, and recently the episodes have started to become a bit more frequent (a bad hypoglycemia episode is like an incredibly horrifying panic attack). Trying to figure out WTF is going on with me has been daunting, everyone tells me to eat more sugar or more complex carbs which just seems to repeat the cycle. No one wants to test me, or knows what to test me…

I occasionally get hypoglycemia. For me, it tends to be worse if I eat a lot of sugary foods the day prior and then go through a prolonged period of not eating. Like if I eat ice cream at night and then skip breakfast.

One trippy thing to try is to go on a keto diet. When your body is in ketosis, it stops using glucose as an energy source, so you shouldn't get hypoglycemia. It's actually a strange feeling. In my case, my energy level feels much more constant throughout the day.

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by srcreigh »

senectus1 wrote: post #58
jeffbee wrote: post #50

Who else has trouble interpreting these guidelines? What's 300g of fruit in practical terms? I ate a huge honeycrisp apple for breakfast. It probably weighed 400 or 500g. Is that a whole day of fruit? Or, does it not really count because of the water content? I also ate half a dozen dried apricots. Am I supposed to mentally rehydrate them to arrive at the serving size? And what about this use of the term "optimal"? T…

>I ate a huge honeycrisp apple for breakfast. It probably weighed 400 or 500g that is huge... a half kilo apple?!?!

Volume of a water bottle or a little less roughly

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by iambateman »

AbsoluteCabbage wrote: post #81
cyounkins wrote: post #79

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High fructose corn syrup is a very poor example. It is composed of fructose and glucose, both very familiar molecules to our bodies.

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Source? I googled and couldn’t find anything.

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by TechGoat »

I've read a lot about avoiding whole grains lately as many of them contain lectins, a protein that disrupts the intestinal lining which causes leaky gut/inflammation. This inflammation can be disruptive for chronic diseases such as Diabetes. Curious what the ideal balance of grains would be.

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by jbigelow76 »

candiddevmike wrote: post #21
thedebuglife wrote: post #16

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I don’t know if this helps at all but there’s some ways to get a GCM from the private industry without needing a prescription, such as Nutrisense. I paid about $150 a month for it though.

To me, that's a lot of money for a piece of plastic. I get that it's a medical device and needed lots of testing etc, but Nutrisense seems like too much "value add" to justify what they charge for it. Hopefully I can get a prescription and get this all covered by insurance.

If you aren't diabetic you could pay for something like Nutrisense or Levels to get enough monitors to cover about 2-3 months of activity, learn what triggers spikes, and then cut it. What you see in those three months is pretty much what you are going to see going forward unless you were to make a significant lifestyle change and stick to it (going to/from carnivore/omnivore/vegetarian, cutting out alcohol, etc...)

I used Levels for about 3 months and I saw the same thing over and over again, it was obvious when I was being good about my eating, it was obvious when I went out for happy hour. I learned a couple things, mix a little fat or protein in if you are consuming carbs to blunt the spike, the alert to "take a walk to blunt the spike" is never long enough unless you go for an hour or more. Another year or two of wearing it wouldn't change any of that.

Unless your PC says for your condition of X we are going to try and get your glucose level to never go past Y and see if it fixes it, a CGM for non diabetic people is something you can timebox to 3-ish months, get the data, and get out for under a $1000 one time investment.

Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices

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Post by andreygrehov »

TLDR from ChatGPT:

A study by the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University found a correlation between poor diet and 14 million cases of type 2 diabetes worldwide in 2018. Insufficient intake of whole grains, excess refined rice and wheat, and overconsumption of processed meat were identified as significant dietary factors. The research revealed that poor diet has a larger impact on men, younger adults, and urban residents. Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean saw the highest number of cases linked to diet. The study suggests that addressing dietary issues can help tackle the global type 2 diabetes epidemic.

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