Comment Comment by 462436347 US sugar consumption declined from 2000-2020 to 1970s levels, while its T2D prevalence only increased: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38094768And if sugar is so metabolically harmful, where are the RCTs showing this? All I've seen is that outside of a caloric surplus, it isn't especially metabolically harmful, and ironically, even outside of a surplus, saturated fat is much worse:https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/41/8/1732/36380/Sa...https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-015-1108-6Meanwhile tribes of hunter-gatherers in Africa get 15-80% of their daily calories from honey during certain seasons; why aren't they obese and diabetic? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472... parent 462436347 2 years ago
And if sugar is so metabolically harmful, where are the RCTs showing this? All I've seen is that outside of a caloric surplus, it isn't especially metabolically harmful, and ironically, even outside of a surplus, saturated fat is much worse:
https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/41/8/1732/36380/Sa...
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-015-1108-6
Meanwhile tribes of hunter-gatherers in Africa get 15-80% of their daily calories from honey during certain seasons; why aren't they obese and diabetic? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00472...