SC - Unwarranted Response: Was: Pennsic -OOT, Etc.

[Elise Fleming]

Excerpts from internet.listserv.sca-cooks: 7-Jan-99 SC - Re: Eat well,
well to do? by Shari Burnham at execpc.com 
> Same thoughts to things like higher cases of
> diabetes because more sugar in more products? 

Sugar does not cause diabetes -- sugar in the diet doesn't really have
much of anything to do with diabetes.  Sugar is pretty much a red
herring as far as diabetes goes.

However, the increase in typeII diabetes in the US in the 20th century
is almost certainly directly related to the increase in obesity -- and
whatever changes in lifestyle and diet cause that increase.  The body is
built to store food in case of famine; in lean times (like winter) it
uses the stored fat, and in fat times, like summer/harvest, it stores it
up.  Introduce the modern lifestyle, where there are no lean/fat times,
and you get an increased incidence of type II diabetes.

toodles, margare
(Type 1 diabetic, 24 years) 
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