Re:The carbs-obesity hypothesis
by toasterlovin on Wednesday July 25, 2018 @05:03PM
(#17612785)
People are absolutely not guaranteed to get type 2 diabetes. Diabetes was basically unheard of > 150 years ago and has steadily increased in prevalence since then.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
You're misunderstanding what I'm saying. 150 years ago people weren't taking in nearly as many carbs as we are now, nor were they living as long.
Diabetes, as a disease, is the breakdown of the process of your body using insulin. This happens naturally, in everyone, but happens at an increased rate when people have foods high in carbohydrates.
So the comment that people are guaranteed is to say, "If we all lived 300 years, you'd eventually have diabetes", not that everyone gets it, period.
Re:The carbs-obesity hypothesis
by toasterlovin on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:35AM
(#17623470)
I didn’t misunderstand you. My statement still stands.
People don’t live longer now, there are just more people who live to their full life span. Back when diabetes was unheard of, there were plenty of people who lived until 80. None of them died of complications related to diabetes.