Probably 20 years ago now when I was reading about sugar and atkins diet some rando on the internet suggested that high intake of sugar told our bodies (or at l

Probably 20 years ago now when I was reading about sugar and atkins diet some rando on the internet suggested that high intake of sugar told our bodies (or at least my scandanavian/scottish-genetics body) to start bulking up for the winter. Looks like rando might have been right. There's also the theory in Survival of the Sickest by Moalem that the high blood sugar in diabetes acts like antifreeze and protects against frostbite in the winter. That was from 2007, I don't know what people think about that theory now. (EDIT: After looking it up it looks like Moalem was talking about type 1 Diabetes which makes no sense to me at all since historically T1 was a pretty immediate death sentence, and I can't find any decent scientific papers citing that book, its all garbage, oh well). Those theories have always been intuitively compelling to me and stuck in my head.