Excess Fat Affects Body's Sugar Sensors--Study

From HealthDay News (roundup--scroll down to the bottom). Now wait a minute! Fat helps make us fuller longer, just like fiber, plus it gives us energy to boot. How is it going to mess with sugar sensors when your intake of sugar is already reduced beyond belief, as in the Paleo diet?

"A high-fat diet can trigger type 2 diabetes by interfering with the body's sugar sensors, according to a new study.

Being overweight is one of the main risk factors for type 2 diabetes. Learning more about the link between fat and type 2 diabetes could help lead to a cure, according to the researchers at the University of California and the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, BBC News reported.

The study, conducted with mice and human pancreatic cells, appears in the journal Nature Medicine.

The findings are interesting and this is a "theory worth investigating further," Dr. Iain Frame, director of research at Diabetes UK, told BBC News."

The first sugar sensor is the tongue. Train the tongue and let the rest fend for itself. Before you know it, all manner of things will register as too sweet, and you won't consume them. Less sugar in, less fat on.

You want a link between fat and Type 2 diabetes? Here's one for free: SUGAR, specifically that from excess broken-down starches, which gets stored as fat.

And to think people actually waste money going to college to learn how to research such dumb things! Who's financing this joke, anyway, and why did they report this to the UK news outlets before reporting it here in this country?

Makes you wanna go "hmmmm"...

Maybe it's because no reputable medical journal in this country would HAVE it...or maybe they just wanted to get published SOMEWHERE. Publishing = research grants--it's a horrible cycle that only ends in research for profit and institution notoriety more than an actual potential cure to something.

It's pretty pathetic when an unemployed housewife, who hates science, can answer questions a medical researcher team can't. I may not be able to diagram chemical pathways, but I can answer the who, what, and why.

So why don't they research the who, what, and why of SUGAR METABOLISM instead, and get their money's worth? Because it's already been done to death, and these researchers needed an excuse to waste money (or rather, make money). Britain's about 20 years behind when it comes to medicine, so this may be big news to them--and maybe why it was reported THERE first. A notoriety win.

Believe it or not, there are still people in the U.K. that believe childhood obesity comes from excess consumption of cheese and fatty foods, which inevitably leads them to consume more sugar through cheap starchy foods (take-out is now the national dish over there). Maybe the lack of fat in diets as kids led to now-teenagers and young adults rioting this past week.

(sarcasm on) Sugar altering the behavior of kids? What a concept! (sarcasm off)