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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Researchers have thought for years that eating too much of any food can cause weight gain and predispose people to diabetes. But a Stanford University School of Medicine study has now linked sugar directly and independently to diabetes.
After accounting for obesity and other factors, researchers discovered that increased sugar in a population's food supply correlated with higher diabetes rates. Scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, examined data on access to sugar and diabetes rates from 175 countries during the past decade. The research was published last week in PLOS ONE, a scientific journal.
The research provides the first evidence drawn from a large-scale population study for the idea that not all calories are equal when it comes to risk of diabetes, said Dr. Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the study's lead author.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=28858
After accounting for obesity and other factors, researchers discovered that increased sugar in a population's food supply correlated with higher diabetes rates. Scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of California, San Francisco, examined data on access to sugar and diabetes rates from 175 countries during the past decade. The research was published last week in PLOS ONE, a scientific journal.
The research provides the first evidence drawn from a large-scale population study for the idea that not all calories are equal when it comes to risk of diabetes, said Dr. Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and the study's lead author.
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=28858