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Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles

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[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Plus, sugar became so ubiquitous that its in everything. People consume more than they might think. Nearly every big brand food has sugar from breads, to frozen meals, and of course loaded into various drinks.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wondered why Europeans kept calling American bread cake until I looked at the ingredients on your average pseudo-wheat loaf of bread.

High fructose corn syrup is like the third ingredient. Followed closely by "cellulose filler," aka, sawdust.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

My first response was, “damn, even my expensive whole wheat bread?”, but then I looked at the rest of the ingredients, and didn’t see any I thought should be higher. What do you want to be there?

Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, cracked wheat, yeast, gluten, whey, less than 2% of …

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sugar doesn't cause diabetes. Diabetes affects your ability to process sugar but sugar is not the cause.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

But sugar does contribute to obesity, which influences diabetes.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

More likely obesity is an inevitable consequence of diabetes and the diet that leads to it. The fact that you can be skinny and diabetic supports the idea that it isn't the obesity, it's the diet. We have observed the mechanism that causes insulin insensitivity. It's not some mystery, people just don't want to accept that EATING ANIMALS CAUSES DIABETES.