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[Mortblanc]

BP, diabetes is not a behavior or food disorder, it is a genetic disorder. Purging the entire UK of all sugar and/or changing eating habits will not stop a single case of diabetes.

You have more diabetes in your society for two reasons;

1. medical science is keeping type 1 diabetics alive longer and allowing them to reproduce more effectively. Every one of those pitiful obese and diabetic children the media shows you as part of their "anti-fast food campaign" has a parent, grandparent, aunt or uncle that is also diabetic. It is a genetic disease. They did not catch it from a Big Mac.

2. Medical science has increased the life span and more people are living long enough for their livers to degenerate and develop type 2 diabetes. It is part of the natural aging process and is more evident due to more people reaching their senior years. Type 2 was not a real issue when life expectancy was 50. Half the population over age 60 is type 2 diabetic, many of them do not even know it.

Obesity is also not food related except in that people eat too much of it. Blaming the food is giving the food credit for human behavior. It is not cocaine or heroin. All you have to do is plot out a healthy diet and stop eating when you have reached you calorie limits.

Note that I did say "healthy diet". Beans, mash, bread and beer might be vegan but they are not on the lists of low calorie foods.

I do blame the governments for a big part of the obesity problem though. About 40 years ago they stopped teaching the "square meal" concept. (meat, veg and fruit) and changed to a carb based diet recommendation, the "food pyramid". That placed carb based foods as the primary food source and promoted a high calorie food intake as the world diet at the expense of meat and green veg. Do note that potatoes, pasta, rice, all cereal grains and most root crops are not "green veg".

While it does not cause diabetes it does feed it. That is part of the reason for the high count of type 2 diabetes and the trend toward obesity at the present time. The "normal diet" of the western societies is now carb based and poison to a diabetic, and promote obesity. While people are living longer the foods the government recommends they eat bring out the worst of their problems.

The carbs turn to sugars rapidly and that excess sugar is stored as fat.
The real reason you see so many out of control obese chaps running about. As we age we simply can not burn off as many calories as we once did. That is a behavior issue, not the fault of the food.