My own personal take is that obesity itself leads to diabetes regardless of sugar consumption.
The two siblings I have with diagnosed diabetes are both obese and both more excess carb eaters and excess portion eaters - and always have been - more than excess sugar consumers.
I have neither diabetes nor obesity and have not been shy of consuming sweets. I even had a many long years (before not now) of daily large sweet carbonated beverage consumption. But during that time had neither obesity nor diabetes.
Yes, my analysis is merely anecdotal.
Are they likely to have a lot of stored iron? Having a lot of iron or omega 6 fats in one’s body makes it harder to process sugar.
Men who consume chocolate or meat consume more iron than they need. If they don’t remove blood or donate blood every two years, I think they likely have excess iron.
I even had a many long years (before not now) of daily large sweet carbonated beverage consumption.
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I believe doing that makes a person less likely to develop diabetes because it reduces the person’s hunger and makes it less likely that they will consume a lot of omega 6 fats (soybean oil, canada oil).
“My own personal take is that obesity itself leads to diabetes regardless of sugar consumption”
Nearly type 2 diabetic I have seen is overweight/obese. I know one guy who got type 2 in his late 50’s and was normal weight but he is the only one I can recall.
I was prediabetic and lost 60 lbs and my blood sugar went to 100. MY Ac1?? went from 7.25 to 5
Yup. My brother who consumes massive quantities of healthy food and no sugar has diabetes and the brother who puts sugar on his CocoPops does not (but he could simply be well preserved from years of alcohol pickling.)