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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Carbs will kill us all.........................
Don’t blame me. I do my best to increase our diabetes level. LOL
I think it is more sugar than carbs, and I’m pointing to Big Sugar.
A few decades ago, Big Sugar duked it out with Big Fat, and Sugar won. Afterwards, low-fat no-fat etc were highly sought after, while everything processed had sugar with “added” sugar.
One can have a diet of healthy fats and oils, very low or zero sugar, with moderate carbs.
I immediately went on a low-carb diet. Back then, it was mostly called the Atkins diet. Today, it's mostly called the Paleo diet. Either way, it's the same concept. Eat mostly natural foods and cut out the added sugar by virtually eliminating all processed "supermarket" foods. As well as all fast food.
20 years later, at age 60, not a trace of diabetes. I'm about 50 pounds lighter. I'm overall in much better physical shape then I was two decades ago.
They did work hard(scared people) to stop people from going outside and get some Sun for that good Vit D
Some other FReeper posted something like this a while back:
Cows eat grass and are fat. Wolves eat cows and are skinny............
list is heavy middle east and pacific/polynesian - genetic prediliction?
The only thing I can gather from that chart is that if you’re Polynesian, don’t become a Muslim, too!
I find this interesting personally as I teeter with pre-diabetes but have lowered my A1C level with better diet, weight loss and weekly Mounjaro injections. So much of Type 2 DM seems to be lifestyle related.
> I think it is more sugar than carbs, and I’m pointing to Big Sugar. <
It’s insane how many products include sugar, unnecessary sugar. I guess focus groups are saying things like, “The granola bar that contains 10 grams of added sugar tastes better than the one with 3 grams of added sugar.” Well, yeah.
Thank goodness for labeling requirements. At least now I know what to avoid.
As a side note, I saw a TV ad for ‘Sugar Frosted Flakes’ the other day. The announcer was saying that families should try serving it for dinner!
It’s specifically visceral fat that’s the main cause of insulin resistance. Visceral fat physically prevents insulin from binding to sugar molecules.
Carbs are sugar (when they hit the blood stream).
Polynesians-they’re subsidized. Boats supplying outer islands.
New Caledonia. French. Gotta be the natives unless tropical living is now lazy with development.
Modern living. What else could it be?
Yes, but I expect added sugars to hit the blood stream like MOAB, whereas carbs (bread, pasta, etc) are not so shocking.
Its all those Ramadan Sweets eaten every sunset for a month.
Islands and deserts - wonder what massive changes in diets occurred in those two areas...
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