Between 1985 and 2010, average daily caloric intake rose by eight percent, while diabetes rates rose by 727 percent. Clearly, total calorie consumption cannot explain the meteoric rise in obesity-related diseases. Researchers discovered that it’s the increase in total fats and carbohydrates specifically that’s causing the massive weight gain in people around the world. It’s the combination of fat and carb that causes metabolic disruption. The only food on Earth that is both a fat and a carbohydrate, is sugar, which includes both sucrose (regular table sugar) and high fructose corn syrup—both of which contain both glucose and fructose. Your body metabolizes glucose and fructose in two distinctly different ways. Fructose is metabolized much like alcohol, and damages your liver and causes mitochondrial and metabolic dysfunction in the same way as ethanol and other toxins.
It's not the sucrose (cane & beet sugar) that's the problem, it's the HFCS. Carbohydrates are also a major problem and should be avoided, especially anything made with wheat or corn.
Total sugar consumption has remained very constant over the years, what changed was the introduction of HFCS in the early 70s. In 1972, HFCS consumption was 8 pounds/year, now it's 80 pounds/year. Cane/beet sugar has decreased by a like amount, leaving total sugar intake almost constant.
Another bugaboo was the hare-brained idea of the low fat/ no fat diet. When you remove fat from food, it loses flavor and tastes like cardboard. The solution? Replace the fat with HFCS to get the flavor back. Dumb.
A great diet website: www.Diabetes- Warrior.net The "paleo diet" should be used by everybody, unless you like being sick & fat and popping pills all day.