Wonder if this shift corresponds to the age of automobiles
Combine:
- urban layouts that are made to dissuade walking or cycling anywhere (thanks to automobile manufacturer lobbying),
- along with poor food health guidelines,
- along with corporate shrinkflation and reduction of quality ingredients in favour of fats and empty carbs.
- along with a piss-poor healthcare system that dissuades preventative checks and treatments
and you’ve got an American obesity epidemic.
And transnational corporations developing and heavily marketing intentionally addictive junk food, especially to children.
Also it’s not just American.
No, but America is really good at exporting its sickness to other countries.
I’m not giving Canada a pass, many of these are present here, but the U.S. is the only developed country that matches ALL of the above.
Plus, sugar became so ubiquitous that its in everything. People consume more than they might think. Nearly every big brand food has sugar from breads, to frozen meals, and of course loaded into various drinks.
I wondered why Europeans kept calling American bread cake until I looked at the ingredients on your average pseudo-wheat loaf of bread.
High fructose corn syrup is like the third ingredient. Followed closely by “cellulose filler,” aka, sawdust.
My first response was, “damn, even my expensive whole wheat bread?”, but then I looked at the rest of the ingredients, and didn’t see any I thought should be higher. What do you want to be there?
Whole wheat flour, water, sugar, cracked wheat, yeast, gluten, whey, less than 2% of …
Sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes affects your ability to process sugar but sugar is not the cause.
But sugar does contribute to obesity, which influences diabetes.
More likely obesity is an inevitable consequence of diabetes and the diet that leads to it. The fact that you can be skinny and diabetic supports the idea that it isn’t the obesity, it’s the diet. We have observed the mechanism that causes insulin insensitivity. It’s not some mystery, people just don’t want to accept that EATING ANIMALS CAUSES DIABETES.
fwiw, car usage may be related to elevated “fast food” consumption.
less cars, less drive-thrus, less McOzempic
As someone with prediabetes, no, not really. The kind of exercise that helps prevent and mitigate high blood sugar levels isn’t continuous exertions like walking or cycling. It’s more like running up stairs. So if you want to blame elevators…
Well, still don’t. It’s a dietary problem, not an exercise problem. Otherwise I, a lifelong bike commuter who always takes the stairs and doesn’t sit down at work, wouldn’t be prediabetic.
What if I told you those who own a car are more likely to eat fast food/make poor diet choices?
https://open.bu.edu/bitstream/handle/2144/40250/Fast Food-and-SES-EHB- Revised_2.pdf
Well they already made one really bad choice, so I’d say it checks out!
How would diabetes and the age of cars link in any way?
how wouldn’t it?
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Explain the connection to a vehicle using an internal combustion engine (or a battery pack) and someone with diabetes. Because I don’t see any connection.
Third order effect of more cars. Higher numbers of cars requires more car infrastructure which tends to displace pedestrian infrastructure.
Less pedestrian infrastructure means less convenience, which tends to lower utilization. Lower utilization, less walking. A little less low impact cardio for most.
You walk more, sometimes a lot more, when using public transit. It’s speculated to be one of the reasons why Europeans are on average thinner than Americans.
Although I thought diabetes was much more about diet than exercise?
(Type 2) Diabetes is mostly about obesity, but yeah obesity is mostly about diet, because it’s a lot easier to eat less than it is to exercise more. Exercise still plays a part though, even though it’s the lesser one
Diabetes and obesity are correlated because they are both symptoms of metabolic syndrome. Increased insulin levels over a long period of time leads to disregulation of many metabolic health markers.
Not all people get all symptoms… The skinny fat people with diabetes, for instance.
The body can only store 2-5g of glucose at a time, only circulating in the blood. The rest gets stored as fat. The body doesn’t store glucose. Whenever you eat sugar, carbs, alcohol, the body pumps out insulin to regulate blood sugar levels. A diet that requires the body to constantly produce insulin causes the entire system to become less sensitive to insulin over time.
So yes, reducing insulin levels allows the body to work better over time. Reduce carbs, reduce alcohol, reduce sugar. The more time you spend between carbohydrates the more your body can self regulate.
Increasing muscle mass can help consume excess glucose, but diet is the main factor
diabetes linked to obesity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066828/
obesity linked to car use https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744747/
I have no clue ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
ITT: people who have no idea what causes diabetes
what causes diabetes my lemmy?
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-diabetes/
Don’t believe it? Click “Sources cited.”
i think some folks here seem to think my post is about exercise and how cars can make us more sedentary? not by a long shot.
simply:
- diabetes linked to obesity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066828/
- obesity linked to car use https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8744747/
i make no claims about exercise
Diabetes has been essentially cured, and no one gives a fuck because it isn’t a pill or an injection. T2D can be completely reversed through nothing more than diet. But because the required diet (that results in healthy humans whether or not they have diabetes) indicates a cessation of the daily, mindless, cruel and violent abuse of animals for food, people don’t give one fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
