Processed meats contain a LOT of salt. Salt doesn't cause diabetes, but it does cause water retention and high blood pressure, so is bad for people with diabetes.
As for sugar, they are on the list of foods they examined. What they found is that we're eating more French fries, so that turns out to be a bigger factor in practice.
Why is salt / bad influence for people with diabetes relevant in this context? Weren’t we interested in meat in relation to the rising global incidence of diabetes? Cottage cheese, shrimp, canned tuna and more also are high in sodium.
Worse, when you aim for that market customers start to want local, organic, grass fed, etc which drastically increases ingredient costs.
So the question is why it's hard to get even moderately low amounts of sugar, say <20% of calories from added sugar.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin%E2%80%93angiotensin_sy...
I think the salt consumption is a bit of a red herring and it's better to fix the metabolic syndrome.
This study seems to be the best we have. It’s observational and involved self reporting of diets.
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/jo...
It’s complicated too because nitrites found in fresh vegetables are strongly correlated with health improvements. This could mean that nitrites aren’t the problem, nitrites in the presence of animal proteins is the problem, or in the presence of fat, salt, etc. It doesn’t appear very clear to me.
Now however, once you get fat and specially fat over the stomach then even high quality carbohydrates can cause high blood sugar which is the definition of diabetes.. so what happens is that low quality carbs plus processed meat leads to being overweight and having a fat stomach, which causes insulin resistance and decreased output from the pancreas.. once you get in this condition however adding whole grains does not help at that point, in fact it adds to your high blood sugar and in fact eating high quality grains at that point, once you have a fat stomach, leads to high blood sugar which is the definition of diabetes
... In other words, once you have fat over the stomach in great quantities, if you eat whole grains, fruits and beans and so forth at that point, that will cause diabetes, diabetes being high blood sugar.. you want to eat the high quality carbs, fruit, and beans before you get fat.. if you eat it after you get fat you will develop diabetes because high quality carbs, fruit, beans etc will give you high blood sugar if you have fat over the stomach
Any study like this needs to have an explanation for the recentness of obesity and diabetes epidemics.
Consumption of both of those dropped right as the obesity epidemic picked up.
Nicotine is a known appetite suppressant. Alcoholics are known to have terrifically clean arteries (at the cost of liver disease).
This is the video I got it from. I'm in no way an expert on this topic so take it with a bit of salt
Switched to a keto two months ago and everything has improved. Blood sugar always 90 or less, cholesterol 180, LDL down about 30%.
The kidneys turn salt into fructose as far as I know. When u're diabetic and you consume salt it's much better to have it in liquid form. I don't think the reasons are known, but it doesn't raise the serum sodium as much.
Huh, how is NaCl turned into C12H22O11. That'd need like a nuclear rection or alchemism.
Dr. Johnson doesn't mention what organ in the body performs the conversion, but he does mention that high serum sodium activates an enzyme which converts glucose to fructose.
Fructose, in high amounts, causes high uric acid, leading to inflammation, insulin resistance, and causes the body to switch from fat-burning to fat storage (bears and migrating birds will increase their fructose consumption before hibernating/migrating).
According to Dr. Johnson, if you eat some food and feel thirsty, that indicates that your body has already started converting glucose to fructose internally. Drinking enough liquid to keep the serum sodium from increasing will prevent this conversion.
from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3833672/ (Dr. Johnson is a co-authour of this article) "... activation of aldose reductase in the liver with conversion of glucose to fructose"
Then I found this article, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijn/2011/392708/, which states that "The increase in dietary fructose intake stimulates salt absorption in the small intestine and kidney proximal tubule through coordinated activation of PAT1, NHE3, and Glut5. We propose that reducing dietary intake of fructose and salt, as well as maneuvers aimed at inhibiting fructose absorption in the intestine and kidney tubules, could have profound beneficial effect on controlling blood pressure in patients with metabolic syndrome."