Sugar Causes Diabetes, Not Obesity

This article reports on a study that links sugar to the incidence of diabetes.  The amount of sugar in the diet was related to the incidence of diabetes even when it was controlled for obesity.  The normal weight group had a higher incidence of diabetes when sugar consumption increased.  More sugar might increase one's weight but obesity is not the causal link to diabetes.  It will be interesting to see what government's do with this information.  The FDA has traditionally been an advocate for the food industry that it is supposed to regulate.  The food industry makes its decisions based upon factors other than the health of the public.  It is not much different from the tobacco industry that did everything that it could to fight the scientific evidence linking tobacco consumption to disease.  For that matter, much of the resistance to government actions to reduce carbon emissions is funded by industries that benefit from carbon consumption.