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I misspoke, replace glycemic index with insulin and I'm right.

For example if you eat 200 calories of ice cream vs broccoli. The ice cream will be absorbed so fast into your system that you will get hungry again before you actually need more calories. Every insulin spike is a notch towards metabolic syndrome. It is the crazy insulin spiking that leads to diabetes.

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"Every insulin spike is a notch towards metabolic syndrome."

Completely disagree with this. The best available evidence suggests that it is visceral fat, not insulin itself, that causes insulin resistance. There is an underlying autoimmune malfunction at the heart of it. But because people with diabetes often crave sugar (because their bodies fail to absorb it), people have conflated cause and effect.

There is a growing body of research in this vein. You can find several recent studies like this if you are interested enough. This one in particular has 20% of the subjects no longer needing blood sugar medication after 10 weeks.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/low-carb-diet-he...

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