But people don't eat spoonfuls of sugar every day. But people do eat carbs all the time.
I have been on Keto since 1973 (with some very fast weight gain exceptions from time to time
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Posted on 05/30/2023 6:41:22 AM PDT by dennisw
Let's not sugar-coat it: Pakistan has the highest prevalence of diabetes in the world, data suggests Both the US and UK both ranked significantly lower, despite several risk factors READ MORE: These maps show how obesity rates have TRIPLED in past 40 years
Americans might get a hard time for their high-sugar diets, but the US isn't even in the top 50 worst countries for diabetes, data shows.
And despite Britons having a notoriously sweet tooth, the UK doesn't rank among the worst 100 countries when it comes to rates of the disease.
Figures compiled by Our World In Data, using data from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), analyzed the percentage of diabetic people between ages 20 and 79 in 211 countries.
Pakistan topped the list, with about 31 percent of the population having the condition, followed by French Polynesia, a cluster of islands in the South Pacific (25.2 percent) and Kuwait (24.9 percent).
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But people don't eat spoonfuls of sugar every day. But people do eat carbs all the time.
I have been on Keto since 1973 (with some very fast weight gain exceptions from time to time).
Visiting American vessels provided canned goods so cheaply that the island nation found it economically advantageous to lease out their fishing rights and eat the cheap imported food.
That was his theory on why diabetes of the Marshall Islanders had skyrocketed.
“One can have a diet of healthy fats and oils, very low or zero sugar, with moderate carbs.”
Well, the human body needs sugars...but not ADDED sugars. Natural sugars, such as those found in milk (lactose) and fruits (fructose), are good for one’s health. So are carbs in general. The key is BALANCE. Our bodies need fats, carbs (which includes sugars and fiber), and protein. But, added sugars and syrups are to be avoided.
Was in a convenience store over the weekend Twizzlers, the ultimate health food……..no fat.
“Carbs are sugar (when they hit the blood stream).”
I was about to post the same, as sugar, of course, is a carb (along with starches, grains, etc.).
Most of the carbs in our foods pretty much instantly turn to sugar in the body, so while noodles may taste far different than candy, they’re virtually identical as far as the damage they do to people.
Now some carbs aren’t quite as bad as others, but for Type 2 Diabetics, comparing carbs is like comparing cell blocks in a prison...in the end, they’re all bad!
Very well said!!!
does cousin-marriage also lead to diabetes?
Because Pakistan also leads the world in that.
Keeps my tiny brain sharp as a tack and my blood pressure, cholesterol, and weight low.
It’s not just added sugar. Much worse for you, High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) is used as a sugar substitute.
Yep. There was one island nation — I forget which — that had highest per capita wealth in the world for a short time after selling off the rights to its outlying islets’ massive guano accumulations. They stopped eating their traditional very healthy diet of fish and coconut and began gorging on imported canned foods. Spam is particularly popular among islanders.
That was a close one, I was just about to start the Pakistan diet.
I think my state is the 4th lowest for cancer and I’ve always believed it’s because the sun shines 98.9% of the time.
I also think part of the problem is that everyone uses sunscreen now and it must block the vitamin d also.
Pakistan is famous for its great falafels.
Good for you!
Thanks. I think what happened was that during the health panic of 60 or so years ago, the data all pointed to carbs as being the cause of virtually every chronic problem (even back then and long before).
The processed food industry knew that their existence was at risk if people ‘followed the science’ on this one, so they diverted everyone to fat, which wasn’t hard to do, since all that was needed was to say something like “fat in the food becomes fat on the human body, and thus will kill you”. Of course that isn’t true on a Keto diet, but then no one had been talking that way for decades back then (they did before insulin was isolated).
As to sugar, they may have figured out that people are going to eat sweet things regardless of what’s said, so they allowed sugar items to get bad press, knowing that people wouldn’t listen anyway.
And so now, with Ancel Keyes dead finally (everything bad leads back to him), people are very gradually stepping forward and starting to become honest again, but it’s very, very, hard for many to in the business to admit that they were wrong and, in many cases, harming or killing people with their ‘advice’.
But now, the pro-carb bunch have a new friend, which are the Leftists who are DEMANDING an end to meat consumption...which means carbs for everyone! So we’ll see who wins.
Eat plenty of foods with cinnamon and tumeric
So diabetes causes firearm deaths.
Kind of makes sense that so many Pacific Islander nations take up the top slots. They are a husky people.
“list is heavy middle east and pacific/polynesian - genetic prediliction?”
I think so. The traditional middle east diet is basically the Mediterranean diet, which is heavy on vegetables, fish, chickpeas, fruit, olives, spices, eggs, etc. Very little in the way of grains, excepting rice and rye. Very little booze.
Wheat, sugar, and the like was a luxury for thousands of years, but now abounds.
We (and I include me) just can’t handle it.
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