Posted on 11/01/2024 4:07:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Limiting sugar intake from conception through early childhood was linked to lower risks of type 2 diabetes and hypertension, a new study found.
Low sugar intake in the womb and during early childhood can protect against diabetes and hypertension later in life, according to a new study.
Analysing data from the UK Biobank, researchers from Canada's McGill University and the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California (USC) in the US examined the influence of sugar rationing during and after World War II by comparing health data of individuals born before and afterwards.
“Studying the long-term effects of added sugar on health is challenging,” Tadeja Gracner, an economist at USC and the study's corresponding author, said in a statement.
“It is hard to find situations where people are randomly exposed to different nutritional environments early in life and follow them for 50 to 60 years. The end of rationing provided us with a novel natural experiment to overcome these problems,” Gracner added.
The risk of developing type 2 diabetes was reduced by 35 per cent on average for children exposed to lower sugar intake during their first 1,000 days (nearly three years) after conception, according to the findings published in the journal Science.
For those who were later diagnosed with diabetes, living through sugar rationing in early childhood delayed the onset of diabetes for four years.
For hypertension, the risk was reduced by 20 per cent and the disease’s onset was delayed by two years.
Sugar restriction in utero (while the mother was pregnant) provided a third of the protective benefits, researchers said.
“Sugar early in life is the new tobacco, and we should treat it as such by holding food companies accountable to reformulate baby foods with healthier options and regulate the marketing and tax sugary foods targeted at kids,” said Paul Gertler, a professor of economics at the University of California and one the study’s authors.
Restrictions compliant with the current dietary guidelines During the UK's sugar rationing which started in 1942 and ended in 1953, sugar intake was about 40 g per day on average.
When it ended, sugar and sweets consumption reached about 80 g per day.
During the rationing, nutrient intake overall remained relatively stable with, for example, protein and fat intake largely unaffected by the rationing policies, according to the study.
Current guidelines by health organisations advise against added sugar for children under two years old and recommend limits for adults.
Dr Hilda Mulrooney, a reader in nutrition at the London Metropolitan University, who wasn’t involved in the study said in a statementthat the findings were “timely” given current high sugar intake levels in the UK.
“This highlights the potential for early childhood diet as a risk factor for chronic disease. Given the high levels of sugar in foods and drinks aimed at toddlers and young children, this is of concern,” she added, underlining that this sort of study couldn’t demonstrate causality.
The research team advocates for clear public guidelines to help parents manage children’s sugar intake and for food companies to offer healthier options in children’s foods.
“that it almost certainly is a major contributor, if not the prime contributor, to Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, and Diabetes. So my only point is that a lot was going on...and it wasn’t good, and it has swept up huge numbers of people.”
Out of 8 siblings only two have obesity and we all grew up on the same diet, inlcuding the “wheat” based things that worry you so much.
So much for your theory.
As well, my father's brother was born in 1902. My uncle, my aunt, their only son, and two of their three daughters had diabetes. The two girls were born in 1937 and 1939. The son was born 1940 like my oldest sister. The youngest girl, born a year after me may or may not have diabetes or hypertension. I haven't seen or heard from her since her only brother passed in 2018. I have no clue if any of the rest of them had hypertension. They're all dead except for the youngest. Same thing in my family. I was the baby, and I'm the only one left.
Same thing in my family, and my father’s brother’s family. I posted about it somewhere above this comment.
I was the baby, born in 1947. My oldest sibling was born in 1940. We never had a car growing up. We walked or took the bus. My second-oldest sister born in 1942 bought the first car in the family, probably sometime in her 20's. My brother was next after he was discharged from the Army in 1968. His first car was a red Camaro.
We always walked to school. Even in 1st and 2nd grade we had a 1/4 mile walk to school. We grew up always walking or riding bikes, and had paper routes all through my teens, and did sports in school. Sugar and other stuff (remember Kool Aid) didn’t have time to get us fat; we were too busy. I think it also set our metabolism higher as the two siblings now with obestty and diabetes were the least active when we were growing up. The carbs were already being stored more than used enough by them.
Our grammar school was a few blocks away, but I had to walk at least a mile to and back from high school for 8-12. I was a cheerleader too for four years. It wasn’t until I got pregnant with my first son at the age of 19 that I gained a lot of weight, like 50 pounds. Lost a lot of it in-between my pregnancy with my second son, and gained around 25 pounds for him. I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism when I was in my 40’s. Did put on weight then, and had a hard time trying to get rid of it. I was diagnosed with Type II diabetes around 2000, and still only take oral meds for it. After my Endocrinologist put me on Jardiance four or five years ago, I started losing weight without trying. I’ve lost well over 35 pounds. He sent me for CAT scans to make sure there wasn’t another reason that I was gradually losing weight, but they found nothing, and proclaimed it was the Jardiance. It is known to help with weight loss.
Fructose.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/how-does-fructose-intake-contribute-to-obesity
It actually interferes inside the mitochondria, giving us LESS energy, making us more hungry. It’s why bears get fat eating blueberries.
“So much for your theory.”
Not my theory, there are BOOKS on it, written by highly qualified doctors. Read up on it a bit.
As to obesity and Diabetes, Japan’s Diabetes rate nearly matches ours...and there is virtually no obesity in that country.
Except, it’s very hard for a bear to find enough blue berries to satisfy it’s caloric needs.
Except, it’s very hard for a bear to find enough blue berries to satisfy it’s caloric needs.
Twenty pounds a day is what they are saying:
https://www.cariboulodgealaska.com/post/alaska-s-black-bear-blueberries
Weight gain ultimately comes down to consuming more calories than your body burns = storing fat.
There are 774 calories in 1 cup of Sugar. Calorie breakdown: 0% fat, 100% carbs, 0% protein.
How long would it take to burn off 770 KCal?Walking (3mph) 208 minutes
Running (6mph) 74 minutes
Bicycling (10mph) 107 minutes
Vegetable Oil. Amount Per Serving. Calories 1927. % Daily Value*. Total Fat 218g 279%. Saturated Fat 16g 80%. Trans Fat 5.6g. Polyunsaturated Fat 142g. Monounsaturated Fat 50g.
How long would it take to burn off 1930 KCal?
Walking (3mph) 519 minutes
Running (6mph) 185 minutes
Bicycling (10mph) 267 minutes
Since sugar is low in calories, then as said, "sugar itself is not a “fattening food.”
It is associated with weight gain bcz of it typically being a large part of high calorie "fattening foods," such as refined foods with "empty calories" that have little nutritional value, and a high fat to protein ratio.
It is the bag of chips with the soda that is the real problem, if eating more than is burned off. If you are hiking the Rockies then you likely could eat lots of peanut butter and burn it off. Best to normally eat relative low fat, high protein foods, such as fish, chicken etc. without the skin, lean meats, whole grains and fruits and greens, and only eat what and when food is truly needed for energy, not bcz of love for eating or the clock says so.
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and thy princes eat in due season, for strength, and not for drunkenness! (Ecclesiastes 10:17)
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