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A salty twist: Diabetes risk study says french fries are a culprit (www.nbcnews.com)
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Weekly servings of boiled, baked or mashed potatoes weren’t associated with an elevated risk of Type 2 diabetes — but french fries were.

Craving french fries? Dunking your spuds in a deep fryer might be a recipe for elevating your risk of Type 2 diabetes.

According to a study published Wednesday in the journal BMJ, swapping out your weekly dose of frites for boiled, baked or mashed potatoes could lower your risk of this chronic condition.

The authors examined the diets of more than 205,000 adults in the U.S. who responded to questionnaires about what they ate over nearly four decades. Among those who consumed potatoes, the authors looked at which people developed Type 2 diabetes, a disease that leads to persistently high blood sugar levels.

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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The chronically elevated blood sugar is mainly caused by insulin resistance. Insuline resistance isn’t necessarily caused by eating too many carbs. One of the known risk factors is obesity, and seems to stem from the fat tissue itself and not from the food that has caused the obesity. I’m not saying that eating too many carbs is harmless, but I’m just pointing that it’s more complicated than that.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    I have a different perspective! I even wrote a whole post about it in detail in the keto community (just now).

    Carbohydrates are necessary, but not sufficient to develop type 2 diabetes.

    i.e. it's not possible to develop type 2 diabetes without carbohydrates, I haven't seen any case study, or literature demonstrating it.

    Obesity (as with all manifestations of poor metabolic health) is driven by carbohydrate consumption (driving insulin, driving anabolism). At least in this model [Paper] The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model of Obesity - Beyond “Calories In, Calories Out” - 2018

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    The way I read your post, I interpret it as saying that you can’t have diabetes type 2 if you’re eating such that your blood glucose levels are maintained within acceptable levels. However, I’d argue that you have type 2 diabetes if your body is incapable of regulating your blood sugar without dietary adjustments. It might very well be the case that eating low carbs, apart from treating the symptoms type 2 diabetes, might protect you against developing type 2 diabetes, but that doesn’t mean that the reverse is true: that carbs are the direct cause of type 2 diabetes. It might be true that low carb diets are one way to avoid becoming obese and therefore protect you against the effects of obesity on your organs, or that it might increase insuline sensitivity, but we can’t conclude from this information that carbs are the primary cause of developing diabetes type 2, even though it can (indirectly) contribute to it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    diabetes type 2 if you’re eating such that your blood glucose levels are maintained within acceptable levels

    This is the definition of type 2 diabetes.

    that doesn’t mean that the reverse is true: that carbs are the direct cause of type 2 diabetes.

    Agreed, carbohydrates are a necessary component of type 2 diabetes but are not sufficient by themselves.

    we can’t conclude from this information that carbs are the primary cause of diabetes type 2.

    I can, in so far as they are a necessary part of developing type 2 diabetes, t2d can be avoided by not consuming them. Type 2 diabetes is a blood glucose condition, there are multiple layers in avoiding that state. Removing carbohydrates is a guaranteed way, but not the only way, to avoid type 2 diabetes.

    As far as I'm aware the various factors impacting insulin sensitivity (and thus t2d):

    • carbohydrate load
    • industrial oil consumption
    • fructose consumption
    • inflammation
    • exercise levels
    • carbohydrate and fat consumption : randle cycle inhibition

    Though only carbohydrates are necessary for t2d, the other factors may or may not be present

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