New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
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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
#2What about consumption of processed sugar? (e.g. ice cream, candy, cookies, brownies, and all the foods from the grocery stores in the United States with sugar discreetly sprinkled in).
Personally, I know if I consume too much of the above for several days, weeks, or months prior to a blood test, my A1C will be fucked up and bad. I am quite athletic, trim, and thin.
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#3What about consumption of processed sugar? (e.g. ice cream, candy, cookies, brownies, and all the foods from the grocery stores in the United States with sugar discreetly sprinkled in). Personally, I know if I consume too much of the above for several days, weeks, or months prior to a blood test, my A1C will be fucked up and bad. I am quite athletic, trim, and thin.
"Of the 11 dietary factors considered, three had an outsized contribution to the rising global incidence of type 2 diabetes: Insufficient intake of whole grains, excesses of refined rice and wheat, and the overconsumption of processed meat. Factors such as drinking too much fruit juice and not eating enough non-starchy vegetables, nuts, or seeds, had less of an impact on new cases of the disease.
“Our study suggests poor carbohydrate quality is a leading driver of diet-attributable type 2 diabetes globally, and with important variation by nation and over time,” says senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, Jean Mayer Professor of Nutrition and dean for policy at the Friedman School. “These new findings reveal critical areas for national and global focus to improve nutrition and reduce devastating burdens of diabetes.”
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by the resistance of the body’s cells to insulin. Of the 184 countries included in the Nature Medicine study, all saw an increase in type 2 diabetes cases between 1990 and 2018, representing a growing burden on individuals, families, and healthcare systems.
The research team based their model on information from the Global Dietary Database, along with population demographics from multiple sources, global type 2 diabetes incidence estimates, and data on how food choices impact people living with obesity and type 2 diabetes from multiple published papers.
The analysis revealed that poor diet is causing a larger proportion of total type 2 diabetes incidence in men versus women, in younger versus older adults, and in urban versus rural residents at the global level.
Regionally, Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia —particularly in Poland and Russia, where diets tend to be rich in red meat, processed meat, and potatoes —had the greatest number of type 2 diabetes cases linked to diet. Incidence was also high in Latin America and the Caribbean, especially in Colombia and Mexico, which was credited to high consumption of sugary drinks, processed meat, and low intake of whole grains."
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#4What about consumption of processed sugar? (e.g. ice cream, candy, cookies, brownies, and all the foods from the grocery stores in the United States with sugar discreetly sprinkled in). Personally, I know if I consume too much of the above for several days, weeks, or months prior to a blood test, my A1C will be fucked up and bad. I am quite athletic, trim, and thin.
Discreetly? It’s on the nutrition label. I don’t think candies and ice cream today are particularly less healthy than they were 50 years ago - and there are clearly more options today. It’s easier to eat healthy today than it ever was - this is not why people are getting fat.
This is an unwinnable conflict between population medicine and policy and individual choice.
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#5What about consumption of processed sugar? (e.g. ice cream, candy, cookies, brownies, and all the foods from the grocery stores in the United States with sugar discreetly sprinkled in). Personally, I know if I consume too much of the above for several days, weeks, or months prior to a blood test, my A1C will be fucked up and bad. I am quite athletic, trim, and thin.
Discreetly? It’s on the nutrition label. I don’t think candies and ice cream today are particularly less healthy than they were 50 years ago - and there are clearly more options today. It’s easier to eat healthy today than it ever was - this is not why people are getting fat. This is an unwinnable conflict between population medicine and policy and individual choice.
Candy has probably gotten larger and easier to eat. Like compare a peppermint to stuff like peppermint M&Ms.
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#6This seems to be saying fast food hamburgers are a much bigger cause of type 2 diabetes than the soda. Not what I assumed, though does reflect those I know with type 2 diabetes now that I think about it.
The journal article breaks it down semi geographically, and call Western Europe and North America "high income countries." Probably a better term than "Western countries," but looks out of place between "Central/Eastern Europe and Central Asia" and "Latin America and the Caribbean."
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discreetly? It’s on the nutrition label. I don’t think candies and ice cream today are particularly less healthy than they were 50 years ago - and there are clearly more options today. It’s easier to eat healthy today than it ever was - this is not why people are getting fat. This is an unwinnable conflict between population medicine and policy and individual choice.
Candy has probably gotten larger and easier to eat. Like compare a peppermint to stuff like peppermint M&Ms.
No - in general shrinkflation is a thing - and it tends that things peaked 20 to 30 years ago. Many junk food items are larger than when they hit the shelves but substantially smaller than their peak sizes.
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#8Really confused as to how processed meats lead to an insulin resistance disease. Also, I thought refined carbs have similar glucose index as their non-refined counter parts, so how would adding more insulin inducing foods be beneficial? And how come the grand daddy of insulin spikes, sugar, isn't a factor?
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#9Would a pure chocolate (99% or 100%, no sugar at all) help avoid T2 due to increasing levels of adiponectin?
Re: New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Candy has probably gotten larger and easier to eat. Like compare a peppermint to stuff like peppermint M&Ms.
No - in general shrinkflation is a thing - and it tends that things peaked 20 to 30 years ago. Many junk food items are larger than when they hit the shelves but substantially smaller than their peak sizes.
An example since the pandemic, a "pint" of Hagen Dazs ice cream is no longer a pint (16oz). They are now 14oz. Same with most other brands that come in that size container. Halloween candy also got pretty microscopic. The "bite size" snickers, etc, are like 1/4 the size they used to be.