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Steady on there. You need to be much more careful with how you define 'health' in that first statement. And you really need to explain how you get the second statement as a conclusion from the first.The recent ACCORD studies showed that dosing with meds or insulin to keep blood sugars down wasn't good for health. So based on this I would argue that keeping insulin down (rather than just blood sugar) is a priority for diabetics as well for long term health.
ACCORD purports to show (among many other things) that aggressive blood sugar targets are counterproductive beyond a certain point. There is nothing in that the generalises to non diabetics and it's a weak argument from that to say that low insulin is better than high insulin.
I would actually agree that we should be keeping insulin levels low, but not from the ACCORD data. I think Gary Taubes makes this 'case against high insulin' pretty well.