lucylocket61
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
There's 'facts' in the ideal sense of the word, and then there's scientific facts.
All science can do for us is help us to understand the world as best we can at any given point in time. If we at any stage think "right, now we know" then we haven't learned the lessons from scientific history.
Newton's laws were very useful, and still are, but it took Einstein to come along to suggest that they aren't quite right. Which was quite handy when, later, we started launching things into space.
At what point should we shut our minds down and say that we know why something occurs and there's no need for further enquiry? Hopefully long, long after we start to think "hmmm, maybe diabetes can be induced by eating carbohydrates". That seems like just one of the first baby-steps in understanding to me, and is likely to be just one interesting piece in a jigsaw. To leave it at that would require a complete absence of curiosity.
I remember this forum 6 years ago, when low carbing was still frowned upon by many, with loads of 'facts' thrown about in both sides of the debate.
I also remember the days when obesity was blamed for type 2 diabetes, before it was mainstream on here that obesity, particularly round the middle, was a symptom , not a cause, in those who put on weight and went on to be diagnosed as type 2's.