At first glance, it looks like a "disease of abundance" but that is also wrong-headed thinking; it is really the result of malnutrition, as we all know.



With "sugar as the new tobacco" we have an even worse situation, because this can start at infancy, or before. Western civilization and increasingly, Eastern civilization too, are all dying of what we might call Processed Food Disorder.

Yes, diabetes + prediabetes/insulin resistance might knock obesity off that top position. Where insulin resistance becomes prediabetes becomes diabetes is pretty arbitrary, anyways.

Yes, arbitrary and therefore rather useless. When diabetes is diagnosed is not the same as when insulin resistance begins as Dr Kraft showed and Dr Bernstein says that there is no such things as pre-diabetes. People get "diagnosed" with diabetes long after they have developed metabolic problems. I find this study underwhelming.

Jean

Everything listed here except tobacco is all caused by insulin resistance. Obesity isn't the cause, just one of the many effects. It just happens to be the only one easily visible so gets confused as a cause instead of effect.

I agree. And if Dr. Ancel Keys had been a better researcher, he might have discovered that, instead. He apparently did not know the real reason the Mediterraneans he studied were so healthy was because they fasted for religious reasons fairly frequently.