Another diet question (dairy free)

[Keith]

I'm sceptical about the link between cows milk and diabetes. A far more likely culprit is the sheer amount of sugar that manufacturers shove into foods simply to get people to buy more of their product because its tastes sweet.The effect will be magnified in western countries due to a higher proportion of the diet being processed food containing more sugar.

[NightGizmo]

I'm sceptical about the link between cows milk and diabetes. A far more likely culprit is the sheer amount of sugar that manufacturers shove into foods simply to get people to buy more of their product because its tastes sweet.The effect will be magnified in western countries due to a higher proportion of the diet being processed food containing more sugar.

Sugar, diet, and obesity are the generally accepted causes for type 2 diabetes, which is basically insulin resistance.

But the recent research potentially linking dairy and diabetes is referring to type 1 diabetes, which is an autoimmune disorder where the body kills the insulin producing cells in the pancreas, and from that point on the patient has to rely on insulin injections (AFAIK, there isn't any cure or way to reverse the process short of a pancreas transplant). They don't know what causes the autoimmune disorder yet, but I don't sugar/obesity is one of the candidates.