There’s an unfolding epidemic of what people called “sugar diabetes”. In 1985 approximately 30 million people worldwide had diabetes. Today about 150 million people have diabetes and the number will probably top 330 million by 2025.
Over the same time frame, there was a major jump in obesity rates, too, up 57%. Of course, it isn’t just sugar that makes a body fat, but it helps – especially when the average person eats 168.95kg of it each year. We know it’s hard to believe, especially if you don’t eat sweets or drink sugared cold drinks.
But some of that sugar is in processed and preserved foods in the form of sucrose, corn syrup, caramel colour or fructose. And some of it’s in pasta and other refined carbohydrates that turn into sugar when they reach our digestive systems. The sad fact is that simply following a “normal” diet can put us at risk of developing type II diabetes. Also known as adult-onset diabetes, this type of the disease accounts for up to 95% of all cases and is the kind ballooning to epidemic proportions.
