Originally Posted by
willibrord
Chemicals and sugar are the two things we consume that we should do without. For the first time in a century life expectancy is not increasing, indeed decreasing, in large part to these substances being a large part of our current diet.
Unfortunately for these theories, the evidence does not support them.
1) Life expectancy in the US is increasing, not decreaseing. However our rate of increase is less than that of other developed countries due to our poor health care system:
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/...es/#item-start
2) Sugar has nothing to do with it. Overeating does, however overeating is common in other countries also:
Pure sucrose comprises 20% of the diet of Kenyan runners. They don't seem to suffer from it.
https://runnersconnect.net/diet-of-kenyan-runners/
Studies have shown that a diet of even 25% sucrose does not cause insulin resistance or cardiovascular risk in non-diabetics, as long as calorie consumption is not increased:
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.or...5/12/3566.full
Again, it's not the sugar, or the fat, or the . . . it's overeating that's the problem.