Friday, October 04, 2013  Sugar And Diabetes  Does eating sugar
increase the risk for diabetes? It doesn't look that way:  A
Prospective Study of Sugar Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in
Women, Diabetes Care, 2003  Objective - To investigate
prospectively whether intake of total or type of sugar (sucrose,
glucose, fructose, and lactose) is associated with the risk of
developing type 2 diabetes.  Excluding subjects with
hypertension and elevated cholesterol level, sucrose intake was
inversely* associated with the risk of type 2 diabetes." * An
inverse relationship means as sugar intake went up, diabetes
risk went down.  That was a big epidemiological study. Below is
a tightly controlled intervention study on people with diabetes.
Not only did a high-sugar diet have no influence on their
diabetes, it improved their diabetes:  Improved Glucose
Tolerance with High Carbohydrate Feeding in Mild Diabetes, New
England Journal of Medicine, 1971  All subjects ingested formula
diets consisting of:  Basal Diet:   • 40