Posted on 06/20/2006 7:57:06 PM PDT by cyberdasher
The diabetes rate has doubled in the last 30 years, according to a report in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. A growing consensus within the international nutritional scientific community attributes the drastic rise to an alarming rate of consumption of non-domestic foods and carbonated drinks. Sales of such foodstuffs have soared since the 1960’s as post consumerism has swept society, and it is this phenomenon in particular that has those worried about diabetes pointing fingers to the obvious correlation.
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Carbonated drinks? Very interesting.
hmmm...they seem to ignore the problem of obesity
For a moment I thought it was global warming and it was all Bush's fault.
Oh wait, it's early yet.
More like lots of highly refined wheat and sugar water. Both are relatively new to the human diet. And both increase blood sugar levels substantially.
In other words, it's a bunch of BS, just like "global warming".
I smell a connection between global warming and diabetes coming.
It's sugars fault.
Pop Rocks is causing diabetes
Well, I have not had a soda with sugar in many moons ... years, and years, and years ...
But, then again, I don't have diabetes either. :-D
Didn't know you could use that gene to make soda pop though. Very interesting. Certainly could be some commercial possibilities.
Hell, the boy doesn't even bother to distinguish between Type I and Type II diabetes.
In 1967, Americans ate 114 pounds of sugar and sweeteners a year per capita, nearly all of it as either raw or refined sugar. In 2003, each person consumed about 142 pounds of sugar per year.
Since high-fructose corn syrup was developed more than 30 years ago, consumption of the sweetener, which flavors everything from soda pop to ranch dressing, has skyrocketed. Now Americans down about 61 pounds a year each.
Since 1950, soft-drink consumption per capita has quadrupled, from about 11 gallons per year to about 46 gallons in 2003--nearly a gallon a week per person.
With all that sugar-eating, it's no wonder people don't have much room for their vegetables. In 2003, Americans consumed, on average, a dismal 8.3 pounds of broccoli and just over 25 pounds of dark lettuces (the kinds that are really good for you).
GoreBull Warning! Ahhhhhhhhh!
Sometime between early 2004 and April 2005, the top end of the acceptable range for the fasting glucose test was reduced from (IIRC) 110 mg/dL to 99 mg/dL. If my level (98) been just a few points higher, I would have become part of the 'diabetes epidemic' in 2005 (even though that level was several points lower than it had been the year before).
The problem can be more easily linked to low fat diets. Low fat diets are high in carbohydrates. Excessive carbohydrates cause weight gain and have a negative effect on blood sugar.
Soft drinks have long been a target of liberals. They also have a special hatred for "non-domestic foods", and cheap food in particular. That's why they push organic farming. I suspect this has something to do with their findings.
Yeah, last I heard, my diet sodas were leaching all the calcium out of my bones and I'm going to die of brittle bone disease. Or, maybe I'll just implode all at once.
Same stuff is now causing disease in fat people? If the marrow is all sucked out of their bones, seems to me they would weigh less.
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