Well, the point I was trying to make isn't that humans and cats are identical, but that you feed either one of them a diet they're not adapted to eat and you get similar outcomes. I chose cats because they're critters a lot of us have, and many of us have cats with metabolic issues too. You can pretty much reproduce that effect in most mammals. Cats have an even more limited ability to deal with carbohydrates than humans do, but the outcome is the same. And weirdly enough, people are doing the same thing to their cats they're doing to themselves. Overloading them with stuff they can't handle in large quantities.
I know cats get fatty liver disease when they lose weight really fast, or starve, but didn't know diabetes went along with that. It makes sense though, usually people getting carb induced FLD also get/have diabetes. Humans do get temporary diabetes though, gestational diabetes and also drug induced T2 diabetes.
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One more thought: if the info about diabetes and the benefits of low carb diets was suddenly given to everyone, and everyone believed it--then we would have a major food crisis on our hands.
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Well, that's true about food prices going up because of demand. But the alternative seems pretty disgusting too doesn't it? 1/3 of the population now has diabetes or are pre-diabetic. Even kids are getting T2 now, especially when their Mom's have it too.
At least if they made a concerted effort to get people to stop guzzling sugared drinks and juices, and HFCS, it might slow things down a little. They could back off on recommending grains, starchy veggies and emphasize non-starchy veggies and lower sugar fruits. That would have a huge impact I'm sure.
And my thought behind posting this isn't so much for the "establishment" (I've given up on them) but for those of us here. It just seems like there's quite a few people here that, even though they follow a low carb diet, don't quite see how eating a high carb diet relates to diabetes. Believe it or not.
I wish I could get them all to read GCBC, Taubes is far more convincing than I am but... you know the saying, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.