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Heart disease in America is driven by hyperinsulinemia, which is driven by overconsumption of refined carbs and sugar. Hyperinsulinemia precedes diabetes by 10-
by spirit557 4y ago
Heart disease in America is driven by hyperinsulinemia, which is driven by overconsumption of refined carbs and sugar. Hyperinsulinemia precedes diabetes by 10-20 years. If you want to prevent heart disease, stop eating refined carbs and sugar. And get a glucose insulin tolerance test. This is the test to get - as something like an a1c tells you NOTHING about your insulin resistance until you break past the thresholds.
- kragen 4y agoi don't think sugar consumption is higher now in the usa than it was a century ago, when obesity and metabolic syndrome were rare (though statistics for america as a whole are hard to come by, since most countries in america didn't have anything like a public health system a century ago), and certainly very low compared to the hadza by 'refined carbs' do you mean white flour because white flour consumption was also pretty high in the usa a century ago regardless, the topic at hand is the health effects of different kinds of fats, and it turns out that different kinds of fats do seem to have significant health effects (despite what effects other macronutrients like carbohydrate may or may not have) and that those effects run in the opposite direction to what nobbs is proposing