Diabetes researchers are frantically trying to find out why there is such a phenomenal rise in type 2 diabetes, and they have recently stated that they feel that a massive surge in sugar consumption could be to blame.
Sugar is blamed for being detrimental to the wellness and wellbeing of many different types of people, as it can be linked to obesity, heart disease and a number of other health problems, but new research is now linking it strongly to diabetes as well.
Experts fear that, if the number of people suffering from diabetes continue to rise as they have done to date, the disease could overwhelm the NHS and the healthcare costs of managing the diseases will be catastrophic.
Researchers are also keen to point out that whilst obesity is also a main cause of diabetes, this new feeling that sugar may be to blame is a separate thing, so in other words those who consume sugar in excess can be putting themselves at risk of diabetes even if they are not obese.
The researchers claim that sugar consumption appears to be closely associated with the development of diabetes, a disease that around 3 million people in Britain are suffering from now – which is almost double the number who were suffering from it a year ago.
The study was carried out by comparing the availability of sugar and the rates of diabetes in over 175 countries around the world. They looked at data over the last ten years, and believe that the results show the first ever indicator that ‘not all calories are equal’ and that the calories taken in through sugar can be far more damaging, from a diabetes-risk point of view than other types of calories in the diet.
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