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.