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Re:A theory on how insulin resistance, metabolic disease begin by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:15PM (#12653680)
> The real solutions are really unexciting, like eating fewer sweetened foods, and eating foods sweetened with natural sugar.

It would be easy to test that real solution by comparing diets from a place where they don't eat as much sugar.

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Re:A theory on how insulin resistance, metabolic disease begin by Declanomous on Thursday October 06, 2016 @12:29PM (#12653783)
Well, we know that high-sugar diets are highly correlated with diabetes. The biochemistry is the interesting part.

That being said, there is a lot of easy research that never happens. There are a lot of reasons. Funding is difficult to get, and it's hard to get funding to research things that are "obvious". Furthermore, there are a limited number of scientists -- they have to choose what they are going to research.

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