Posted on 01/31/2022 6:33:13 AM PST by ConservativeMind
Metformin has some ability to actually lengthen human life beyond the normal average, which may mean it actively helps repair or augment healthy processes. It just seems you used that extra time to get a few more things in place to help get you back to normal.
Congratulations, Bert!
“We didn’t have an obesity problem when sugar was the only sweetener....”
The obesity problem took off like a rocket when the US government endorsed low-fat - resulting in processed food replacing fat with sweet. The problem was pushing low fat / no saturated fat. Increased reliance on sweeteners was the result - and obesity and diabetes followed.
It’s like glo-bull warming. You shutter all the coal plants, kill the pipelines, and then the Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai volcano, erupts undoing everything man had done.
You restrict your diet, eat only healthy greens and bean sprouts, exercise, then drop dead from cancer.
Also genetics has more to do with longevity than lifestyle.
Bad genes... you are gonna die earlier no matter how much tofu you eat. It’s worth the 5 minutes.
You do all this “healthy” stuff so you live an extra 5 minutes?
Hey, I get it. I use insulin, have well controlled high blood pressure (drugs), avoid sugar, high fructose corn syrup (I only use honey), eat 100% whole wheat bread, take a variety of supplements, but if I occasionally want a piece of pie or cheesecake, damn it, I’m gonna have it!
Try the zero carb carnivore diet. I’ve been on it the last four years.
So two diabetic parents have 4 diabetic children then????
On the other hand you see plump people riding carts filled with goodies they should not eat and pay with Food Stamps.
“such as promoting consumption of healthier foods, ensuring paid maternal leave from the workplace, levying taxes on sugary drinks”
and when that doesn’t do a damn thing, the fascist left will eventually move to pretty much banning all foods except organic, free-range, gluten-free, Soylent Green at a cost of $25/lb ...
People have to get off their fat ass and move.
If you track them on a time scale, the rise in diabetes in the US tracks right along with the government’s adoption of the Food Pyramid recommendations on diet.
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The number of people with diabetes probably increase as the percentage of fats in people’s bodies that is omega 6 fats increases.
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