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I mean they're partially to blame for it right?

Depends on the type of the diabetes. There's both Type-I and Type-II diabetes. Type-I is an autoimmune disease where your body attacks the insulin producing cells in the body, and can no longer regulate your blood sugars (high or low) and the person must take insulin. Type-II is sometimes caused by obesity, but is also caused by age sometimes. This can be controlled by oral medications, exercise and diet, sometimes, and lower doses of insulin to assist with their blood sugars. It's often referred to as "insulin resistant diabetes".

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Forgot to mention. COVID seems to have been causing a rise in Type-I diabetes cases in non-juveniles =/

No, that's a common misconception. Humans are born with different features and flaws.

While one can increase their chances of developing diabetes later in life with poor diet choices (called Type 2), many people are born with diabetes. (Type 1)

It's wild how diabetes is an epidemic in so many places.

http://main.diabetes.org/dorg/PDFs/Advocacy/burden-of-diabet...

I was referring to the relationship between the incidence of Type 2 diabetes and consumption of excess sugars.

Big box stores push refined and processed foods that contain excessive amounts of sugar these days. They have sugary snacks and drinks in the checkout lines. They carry very few products without added sugars; try to find a bread, pasta sauce, or soup without crazy amounts of sugar.

It's not entirely their fault, but Walmart has demonstrated in the last 40 years that they can compel manufacturers to just about whatever they want. If they wanted, they could push for the reduction or elimination of excess sugars in processed foods.

But then again, there wouldn't be as large a market for Walmart brand insulin if they did that.

> But then again, there wouldn't be as large a market for Walmart brand insulin if they did that.

So… you think Walmart sells processed foods because it will increase their insulin sales? Not because they’re extremely popular high margin sales items?

No, that was a joke.

>While one can increase their chances of developing diabetes later in life with poor diet choices (called Type 2), many people are born with diabetes. (Type 1)

90-95% of people who have diabetes are type 2. It's largely a lifestyle disease, even when you include those who have autoimmune issues.

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