A recent study at Stanford reveals that consuming one ingredient that is on the all over the world directly causes type 2 diabetes.
This is true even in without obesity. Which means that this ingredient is a bigger cause of type 2 diabetes than obesity.
Scientists looking at the different factors affecting a population’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes have one more reason to want to cut out refined sugar.
It is well known that sugar leads to poor health and to obesity. But this study shows that obesity and sugar don’t have to both be present for risk factors to rise.
Studying cultures where the use of refined table sugar is on the rise, they saw that even when obesity rates weren’t affected, type 2 diabetes rates went up as the use of sugar did as well.
This bursts the conventional thinking is that sugar only caused too many calories to be consumed, therefore increasing risk of obesity leading to type 2 diabetes.
Now it seems that sugar can skip the obesity risk factor and cause type 2 diabetes all on its own.