the root cause of dietary issues is excessive fat in the diet, not sugar.
Anything excessive in the diet will lead to gaining weight and eventually to obesity.
I can not say which will lead to diabetes faster, consuming extra 1000 calories daily in fat or in sugar, but in terms of fat gain results will be similar.
The government recommendations are most unfortunate, as they concentrate on macronutrients. So when *fat is bad" people will start eating sugary snacks, and when eventually it changes to "sugar is bad", fat will be added to everything instead of sugar.
It would be more positive to suggest eating more whole, unprocessed foods, but I'm sure political issues will never allow that.
Do you think you're disagreeing with me somehow? My post was about history. Giving me an example of someone concretely stating some modern opinion doesn't change history. Even if you are totally correct, which I do not stipulate, you're opinions are still recent.
Having made sure to stay focused on my core point, I'm going to point out that you're basically begging the question. The model of diabetes as unrelated to the form of incoming calories is the standard model, and that is specifically what is being questioned. Basically just reiterating the standard model isn't really an argument. And it's not that hard to imagine that sugar really is related when we are discussing the mechanism the body uses to regulate sugar. Specifically sugar, the pancreas is not responsible for regulating some sort of ontological "generic obesity particles".
Probably. I think the following is still controversial:
My read on the current situation is that the evidence strongly indicates that sugar is a major problem
There are multiple possible causes, or a combination of any number of such causes
- Excessive sugar
- Excessive fat
- Combination of fat and sugar
- Excessive calories
What is the root cause? I currently tend to think that the problem started to really accelerate when a lot of processed foods manufactured to be extremely palatable by hitting just the right combination of fat and sugar, entered the market.
Anything excessive in the diet will lead to gaining weight and eventually to obesity.
I can not say which will lead to diabetes faster, consuming extra 1000 calories daily in fat or in sugar, but in terms of fat gain results will be similar.
The government recommendations are most unfortunate, as they concentrate on macronutrients. So when *fat is bad" people will start eating sugary snacks, and when eventually it changes to "sugar is bad", fat will be added to everything instead of sugar.
It would be more positive to suggest eating more whole, unprocessed foods, but I'm sure political issues will never allow that.