I recommend the book "the glucose revolution" by jessie inchauspe. It is a pretty good book to understand blood sugar, and can go a long way to help you prevent diabetes, manage your energy, cravings and weight.
Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
People also ate out less and had more time to cook meals at home instead of eating highly processed foods bought from supermarkets.
I made countless "boredom orders" that were nothing but junk. I can't be the only one.
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#15>Rates of type 2 diabetes were 62% higher (IRR, 1.62) in 2020 to 2021 than in 2016 to 2019. The incidence of type 2 diabetes rose from 14.8 to 24.7 per 100,000 person-years over that time. That is a huge jump. Is it possible there was more widespread testing of at risk populations? If they are simultaneously reporting no notable changes in average BMI, my knee jerk thought is populations cannot change that quickly.
> my knee jerk thought is populations cannot change that quickly. Covid went through the population quickly and has been known to heavily increase the chances of diabetes, so why would that be a surprise?
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#16Diabetes is complex and a simplistic jump to "Covid directly causes Diabetes" is very likely incorrect.
From the article itself:
Diabetes risk factors may have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic including limited physical activity, increased sedentary behaviors, sleep disturbances, and increased intake of processed foods.
For a comprehensive picture of multifactor incidence of diabetes see, say, this Australian health release:
https://www.aihw.gov.au/reports/diabetes/diabetes/contents/t...
lots of graphs showing incidence against age, sex, socioeconimcs, etc.
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The obvious followup question to this line of questioning is whether your proposed mechanism is robust enough to cause a 62% year over year increase. I don’t doubt that the spike protein could damage islet cells, frankly I’m not nearly expert enough to evaluate that claim. Assuming it did, I find it pretty unlikely that it causes this much of an effect. Most medicines intentionally designed to cause specific outcomes…
Agreed. However the virus is relatively new as are the vaccines. We are still in the process of getting longitudinal information. The introduction of the spike protein does coincide with the dramatic rise of diabetes. You are correct this may not be the reason however it is still quite plausible that this is a largest contributing factor.
Re: Type 2 diabetes rates in US youth rose 62% after Covid pandemic began
#18Sociodemographic factors, average body mass index, fasting and random glucose levels, and hemoglobin A1c concentrations didn't change from 2016 to 2021. That's especially perplexing.
Isn't diabetes defined as a certain A1C? How could both possibly be true?
The T2 patients weren’t fatter or more diabetic. There were just 62% more of them.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were these communities not affected by the lockdowns? Surely, remote learning and cancellation of intramural sports, etc, led to worse average fittness.
People also ate out less and had more time to cook meals at home instead of eating highly processed foods bought from supermarkets.
“Cooking” at home does not necessarily mean healthier than restaurants.
Home cooking for most people uses tons of sauces/cheeses/creams/butter/chocolate/breads/etc loaded with sugar and sat fats.
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