Nearly half of the U.S. population has diabetes or prediabetes—and many have no clue. Are you among them? | Fortune

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Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles

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Combine:
urban layouts that are made to dissuade walking or cycling anywhere (thanks to automobile manufacturer lobbying),
along with poor food health guidelines,
along with corporate shrinkflation and reduction of quality ingredients in favour of fats and empty carbs.
along with a piss-poor healthcare system that dissuades preventative checks and treatments
and you've got an American obesity epidemic.
- And transnational corporations developing and heavily marketing intentionally addictive junk food, especially to children.
  Also it's not just American.
  
  No, but America is really good at exporting its sickness to other countries.
  
  I'm not giving Canada a pass, many of these are present here, but the U.S. is the only developed country that matches ALL of the above.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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 …
  
  Sugar doesn't cause diabetes. Diabetes affects your ability to process sugar but sugar is not the cause.
  
  But sugar does contribute to obesity, which influences diabetes.
  
  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.
- fwiw, car usage may be related to elevated "fast food" consumption.
  less cars, less drive-thrus, less McOzempic

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