[ilovesarah2012]

Sorry, but I don’t trust anything about of California liberal bastions.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Sounds like they are laying the ground work for massive lawsuits against Big sugar and to impose taxes to help fund socialist medicine.

[Irish Eyes]

The Sugar Association also found fault with Lustig’s study, saying it failed to separate the effects of “natural sugar” and high-fructose corn syrup.

There is the answer ....high-fructose corn syrup.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yet all these many years I thought people were being scolded to and actually WERE attempting to “eat healthy”. I find this hard to believe. Lord knows that’s 1 of the big propaganda things of the last 20+ years, and indoctrination of kids hoping somehow they’ll actually think celery tastes better than Oreos.

[July4]

Has anybody ever done a study on a possible correlation of the rise in obesity, type II diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney failure, alcoholism, and drug dependance WITH THE INCREASE OF THE NUMBER OF WELFARE AND BOGUS DISABILITY RECIPIENTS? How about a study on the increase in physical and mental STRESS on working, tax-paying Americans forced to support the above mentioned.

[HChampagne]

Poorly refined Carbohydrates are the real problem.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I suspect the truth is a bit more round about. That is, while sugar may indeed be to blame, it is because the gut bacteria that prosper most on sugar is a genus called enterobacter, whose toxin *causes* weight gain directly.

That is, if you had a better combination of gut bacteria, you could eat a lot more sugar without ill effects, your metabolism adjusting to it, except you would make your gut environment such that it favored enterobacter.

It has been shown in recent experiments that morbidly obese people had, instead of 30-40 primary dominant types of gut bacteria, almost 1/3rd of their gut bacteria was enterobacter. And when enterobacter toxin was injected into mice they bloated up in short order on the same diet.

Then they took morbidly obese people and put them on an anti-enterobacter diet, with *no* exercise, and they shed about 1/3rd of their overweight with no decrease in total calories.

[neverdem]

Diabetes Reversal In Mice Via Stem Cells

Oral minocycline for the treatment of diabetic macular edema (DME): results of a phase I/II clinical study.

I stumbled into that second link doing a search about tetracycline antibiotics and the immune system.

FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.

[Jeff Chandler]

So the cause is not global warming?

[Mike Darancette]

Diabetes is up since they lowered the threshold.

[metmom]

But a new finding by three California universities – Stanford, UC-Berkeley and UCSF – suggests through compelling evidence that Type 2 diabetes is being largely driven by the rising consumption of sugary foods and drinks. This evidence comes in the form of large-scale analysis of worldwide sugar availability over the last decade. The findings have been published in Wednesday’s (Feb. 27) issue of the journal PLoS ONE.

The natural health people have been saying this for decades now and it goes to prove that although they are poo-pooed by the medical community, as they almost always are, they are right again, as they almost always are.

At the very least, they have a better track record than the medical community.