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Is obesity/diabetes a glucose problem or an Insulin problem?

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When you eat carbohydrates (and especially refined carbohydrates or sugar) they increase your blood glucose.

Usually, for decades, insulin controls your blood glucose - but hyperinsulinaemia is not good for you. It is only when the problem is beginning to get out of control, and your insulin cannot cope, that your glucose rises - and you get diagnosed as (pre)diabetic.

Prevention is better than a cure.

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Yeah it's good stuff....can my GP do my fasting insulin levels or do I need to think of doing it privately?

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S11mVolunteer 70lb IF20 in reply toTwak

Ask- or find an amenable doctor.

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Typo fixed, thanks, Hidden - should have been "beginning" not "begging".

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Dr. Berg, he sure knows his stuff when it comes to the body.

Obesity may be linked to insulin but I don’t think it is just insulin at play here.

I think reined sugars have a lot to do with weight gain as well.

Sure if you ate a lot of fruit, you will pile on the pounds but if you were to eat out at McDonald’s/cafés every day you would get fatter a lot faster as the foods are full of refined sugar.

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S11mVolunteer 70lb IF20 in reply toMatt2584

Modern fruit contains a great deal of sugar - much of it fructose, which can only be processed by the liver.

health.harvard.edu/heart-he...

When we were "hunter-gatherers" fruit was only available in the autumn, and helped us gain weight to get us through the winter.

Carbohydrates, and especially refined carbohydrates (junk food e.g. McDonald's) and sugar, are what cause the blood glucose (and insulin) to rise.

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