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The Relationship of Sugar to Population-Level Diabetes Prevalence: An Econometric Analysis of Repeated Cross-Sectional Data

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This 2013 analysis, led by Robert Lustig and cited in his lecture at CrossFit HQ on March 9, 2019, investigates the association between sugar availability and diabetes through a review of international food supply data from the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization. While the analysis is limited by its correlative nature and other issues surrounding both international and observational research, the data indicate that changes in sugar consumption have a stronger association with diabetes prevalence than changes in overall caloric consumption and that, at a population level, sugar consumption and GDP predict diabetes prevalence.

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Matthieu Dubreucq
January 27th, 2020 at 12:20 am
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Where there is money to be made we have to except that money will be spent to maximise potential profit. So just like when reading a study we should know who pays our doctors vacations, training etc...
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Mary Dan Eades
May 21st, 2019 at 3:23 pm
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Not really surprising, except that there was no apparent association with processed white flour in diabetes increase in these data. Rosebury and Waugh (1939) showed that in Alaskan Eskimo population studies, there was a linear increase in dental caries that directly mirrored the distance a subject lived from the trading post where the refined flour and sugar could be had. And as go the teeth, so goes the heart and metabolism. This was borne out by the later data of Bang and Kristofferson from 1957 that showed not only a marked increase in dental caries, but now the appearance of hypertension and atherosclerosis post introduction of sugar and white flour. (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6045743/)
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Matthieu Dubreucq
January 27th, 2020 at 12:10 am
Very interesting!  Thanks
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Kristan Clever
May 21st, 2019 at 1:27 pm
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the joyfeels from this poem!  i was feeling like that this past weekend whilst working out with my friends in Columbus, Ohio :D
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Olivia Leonard
May 24th, 2019 at 3:13 am
I love this, Kristan. It's a wonderful poem. And it was great to see you out there at Rogue last weekend.
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Danny Bostwick
May 20th, 2019 at 8:46 pm
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Could we bring back the media department at HQ with a different purpose, creating content to show these scientific findings in the public health sphere? Hell, I would come shoot some of it for free (seriously, reach out), I just need to be directed with the content. My dad has fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes and a whole host of other ailments, but will never convince him with the living room videos and the really arcane articles that are posted. Come on, the media from CF is what brought me and so many other people in.
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Kyungtaek Kang
May 20th, 2019 at 4:40 am
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