To be clear, this is a jab at the copious amount of sugar that companies throttle down our throats. It’s a critique of big companies.
To be clear, this is a jab at the copious amount of sugar that companies throttle down our throats. It’s a critique of big companies.
i implore people to not continue associating high sugar to creating diabetes. the ‘research’ that is often cited is just corelation there is no causation link of sugar to diabetes
its yet another way politicians, corporations, healthcare industries have weaponized obesity to dehumanize, deny care, and blame diseases on individual habits rather than the actual evidence of genetics playing a huge sometimes the only role.
coca cola is bad as a company, its bad for doing what it does with its products and causes real harms. but this cheap labeling as sugar = diabetes is just harming the people not coca cola
thank you for this, i scrolled looking for someone saying this, and almost commented something myself, much less well-put. it seems to be a ubiquitous belief that anyone with type-2 diabetes got it from making sinful food choices, rather than it being caused by unknown factors, and there being many risk associations such as stress and genetics, but also including weight. to me the bottom line is that it isn’t a settled question, and it irritates me when people act like it is, and moreso act like the answer just so happens to perfectly align with fatphobia
no problem. i initially had an angry dismissive comment in mind but i realize that a lot of people dont even know the link is just correlations and have bought into a century of propaganda & bigotry. best to be kind when unsure
words to live by!
You got a source for that?
Good general read: https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/sugar-doesnt-cause-diabetes
General recommendations from CDC and NIH don’t include anything about sugar consumption. Correlations with obesity that one might jump to saying has parts of high sugar consumption is only linked/associated not causally linked as presented: https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-2-diabetes https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/symptoms-causes
General glance at a meta analysis here is still a correlation link: https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3576
Regarding the weaponized thing, that takes a lot more effort to explain that I don’t got right now. The first article explains some cultural aspects of what I meant but the institutional level is it’s own thing.
Diabetes is not linked to being caused by high sugar intake, or anything else in any substantial manner that I can find. There are correlations with a lot of things, but we don’t know the cause.
We know obesity is weaponized in healthcare to abuse patients, reduce or remove care, and other general bad things, where in many many cases its correlations not causation. Correlations like sugar use being treated as fact creates discrimination and medical shield for corporations to hide behind denying care. The link being used as a cheap shot to call out coca cola hurts both those with diabetes who are faced with this idea that it’s their fault, all the while doing nothing about coca cola or the systemic issues it created to get away with this.