“So why the sudden, historic change?”
If you’re talking about the medical field trying to blame something in place of knowing the whole story, they have been doing this with diabetes for many generations like many illnesses.
Science knew about type I for many years but didn’t differentiate the two types until the 20th century nor knew how to treat either one and there were a lot of guesses about the illness. The obvious was trying to determine the cause based upon the symptoms. So that’s how that got started and it hasn’t died to this day only they have gone from blaming the symptoms to relieving the illness using them as a cure.
There are some studies like the one in the UK where they openly admit that there is no cure for diabetes, just possible remission.
“Is there a cure for type 2 diabetes? There’s no cure yet, but our scientists are working on a ground-breaking weight management study, to help people put their type 2 diabetes into remission. Remission is when blood glucose (or blood sugar) levels are in a normal range again.”
Another good article is from the Joslin Diabetes Center:
“We talk of remission and not a cure because it isn’t permanent. The beta cells have been damaged and the underlying genetic factors contributing to the person’s susceptibility to diabetes remain intact. Over time the disease process reasserts itself and continued destruction of the beta cells ensues.”
If you tack that on to the terminology used by the medical field you can get confused easily as they can sometimes make themselves sound different. Here’s an entry from WEBMD:
“Although there’s no cure for type 2 diabetes, studies show it’s possible for some people to reverse it.”
https://www.webmd.com/diabetes/can-you-reverse-type-2-diabetes
But that is only for the symptoms, not the illness as they can’t cure it. So the term reverse is a bit confusing. They are still practicing medicine.
wy69
Actually, I’m talking about the sudden massive increase in once rare obesity and diabetes.
Take a look at random photos of school kids from the 80s going back 100 years. Now compare that to the stockyards that are our current schools.