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Heads up, I don’t think there’s a link between eating sugar and risk of developing diabetes. Obesity is a risk factor but not sugar itself.
by iknowstuff 1y ago
Heads up, I don’t think there’s a link between eating sugar and risk of developing diabetes. Obesity is a risk factor but not sugar itself.
- Tarsul 1y agoMaybe. But eating sweets makes me eat more anyway. Which leads to me gaining weight. So it's the same anyhow.
- strken 1y agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831325000493 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S216183132... There's a complicated relationship, according to this meta-analysis. Eating sugar in isolation from other sources of nutrition is a risk factor. Eating fruit, or eating sweetened foods with redeeming qualities like yoghurt and wholegrain cereal, is probably inversely correlated (with lower confidence). These seem to be true even when controlling for BMI. Looking at the meta-analysis, it's hard to say there's no link. The authors suggest that fibre might mitigate the impact, and that adding sugar to otherwise healthy foods might encourage higher consumption of them.