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Originally Posted by mjf
I've never heard of whole grains, beans, or sweet potatoes causing diabetes (assuming you eat a normal amount of them, combined with a healthy diet), but I might be mistaken. Have any studies shown that they cause diabetes?
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This is fine that you have never heard of this. There is a whole side of nutrition science that many people do not hear about, because they pick diets that they want to eat, rather than ones that are based on science.
Diabetes has been totally reversed by just stopping eating carbs and sugars. That is it. No pills needed.
Carbs (whole grains, beans, sweet potatos) spike insulin levels, and insulin stores fat. This is in any and every health science textbook.
If a person is obese already, then this spiking and storing has been going on for a ling time already, so the best way to stop the storing, and move on to using the fat is to stop eating carbs and sugar. (Sugar and carbs are the same thing). What happens when you stop eating carbs and sugars? Insulin is reduced, often radically, and the fat stored in your cells is released from where they are stored, and used as food. People do not eat food, they eat stored body fat. Food is taken apart in the stomach and intestines and turned into fuel. No one actually eats what they put in their mouth. You lose weight when you use the body fat that the insulin has stored in your fat cells. That is caused by not eating carbs.
Often, if you are young and not obese already, you have simply not gotten to the point where this matters (yet).
Sugar (carbs) is used as fuel by the body, but often only when something like rice is all the people have to eat, and they are perhaps always on the verge of starvation, and maybe constantly thin.
Here is a list of science papers which were collected on this site. Read Good Calories bad Calories by Gary Taub, and other books by Sally Fallon, The Art and Science of Low Carb by Volek, and Phinney, and many more.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/science
I understand that sugar (carbs) are yummy, but if you are looking at losing your feet (which happened to my mother and brother because Diabetes runs in the family) you would see it for what it is (an unnessesary part of the diet), and that goes for carbs. Carbohydrates are not "Essential" in the human diet. Meaning, there is no amount, under which, you would get illnesses of deficiency. Vitamins and minerals are a different thing. There are several which are essential, and people in the past got those from pure drinking water, and also eating the guts of small animals who ate plants. (Harley Mowat's research)
By the way, speed of digestion does not matter. If you read above, you would see that we eat our own body fat. We do not eat food. The food is a raw material for the fat that is stored. So you actually eat the fat that was stored many days ago, so digestion rate is besides the point. A person who is 1 pound overweight has 3,500 calories (about 1.5 days worth of energy). A person who is 100 pounds over weight has 350,000 calories of energy that can be used. That person can (under doctors care) go for many months (about 175 days) not eating anything.