Apart from this study, the disease isn’t linked to diets directly, but the result of diets if that makes sense. Obesity is a major factor. Being sedentary is an

Apart from this study, the disease isn’t linked to diets directly, but the result of diets if that makes sense. Obesity is a major factor. Being sedentary is another. Once you become pre diabetic it seems diet becomes a larger factor for more obvious reasons, but the path to get there in the first place doesn’t seem to require a specific diet. You could become obese eating anything and still wind up having very high risk for developing type 2 diabetes. I think this is a source of confusion because people develop it even though they became overweight on relatively healthy food. Or, at the very least, what they consider to be healthy food. As for this study it seems to indicate to me that certain foods are much easier to get obese with, so they’re linked to the disease. When you consider carbohydrate quality, a major difference between high and low quality sources is that the higher quality ones are harder to eat more of. That by default is a great protection from obesity. Foods which are harder to eat are almost always better for us if we struggle with portioning. Take raw carrots for example. You would struggle to become obese by eating raw carrots. On the other hand, you can casually drink like 4 carrots worth of calories in a few minutes via soda. And not feel full at all.