Sugar In Diet Linked To Type 2 Diabetes

Dr. Robert Lustig is the anti-sugar man. In his popular YouTube lecture, "Sugar: The Bitter Truth,", a subsequent profile in the New York Times Magazine and his best-selling book, Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity and Disease he explains how the sweeteners in our food contribute to metabolic disorders associated with obesity. But Lustig believes we shouldn't associate these illnesses only with a high body mass index (BMI). In a new study published in PLoS One, Lustig of the University of California, San Francisco, and Dr. Sanjay Basu of Stanford University set out to show that the availability of added sugar in the human diet may have a direct effect on Type 2 diabetes rates, independent of obesity levels, calorie intakes and many other related factors. Opinion: My mom has Type 2 diabetes, and I make her eat as healthy as she can, and she has been losing a lot of weight which her doctor says is great.