The Diabetes Industry (Don't Know Where to Post This)

(Central Florida Bob ) #1

I get Machine Design magazine’s email newsletters. For those who don’t know, it’s a design engineering magazine primarily aimed at mechanical engineers, and those who need a higher level or systems perspective.

Today they had this article.

It opened with this:

The global market for blood glucose test strips will be worth $12.93 billion in 2021, its highest ever level, according to a report from the Business Research Company. Global sales of anti-diabetic drugs will also reach a record $121.2 billion. The explanation in both cases is the same: the worldwide explosion in the number of people with diabetes, especially the Type 2 variety. Between 2015 and 2021, the number of people diagnosed with diabetes will jump from 415 million to 425 million—a figure that is expected to rise to 642 million by 2040. Between 2017 and 2021 the market for blood glucose test strips will also increase, going from 3.15% a year to 5% a year. Driving the market will be the growing rate of diabetes prevalence around the world caused by lifestyle factors.

That number, $12.93 Billion in blood glucose test strips alone, blew me away.

Didn’t know quite where to post this, but I thought some folks here on the 2Dudes forums would appreciate it.

(CharleyD) #2

haha I blame Ivor and Marty and Dave for getting people to track their blood glucose. Guess it’s never too late to invest, but dang that’s a large number.

(Bunny) #3

Here is why:

Researchers (scientists) abandon their research or stop the process of their research, mid-research when it does not match up with the investors interest (…why processed sugar and grains are good for you…) with added pressures that goes against the academia Ancel Keys hypothesis…

You have to keep people eating high carb sugary low fat diets three times a day to sell those glucose test strips?

Women, Low-Fat Diets & Heart Disease w/ Nina Teicholz:

04:50 Many of our deeply held nutrition beliefs are wrong.
06:30 Ancel Keys only selected evidence that confirmed his ideas and bullied out of existence evidence to the contrary.
09:01 Keys tried to bury the flawed data.
10:05 The Framingham Study data proved that saturated fat had no correlation with heart disease.
11:27 Multiple forces worked to keep this hypothesis in place.
15:22 Vegetable oils were not meant for human consumption. Vegetable oils were unstable and easily go rancid/oxidate.
16:03 The hardening process to make margarine or Crisco, called hydrogenation, produces trans fats.
16:46 When unstable oils are heated, even at room temperature, they oxidize and degrade into hundreds of oxidized products.
17:46 Polyunsaturated vegetable oils show higher rates of death from cancer.
19:40 Americans used to eat 3 to 4 times more red meat than we do today.
24:02 The advice to eat mainly fruits, vegetables and grains is not supported by all the science.
25:27 The nutrients that we need, in their most bioavailable form, come from animal foods.
26:43 The most nutrient dense food on the planet is probably liver. Our ancestors ate organ meats. When predators kill prey, they go for the organs first.
20:38 All foods are a combination of different kinds of fats.
32:54 For women, a low fat diet has no meaningful effect upon weight loss, preventing type 2 diabetes, preventing heart disease or preventing any kind of cancer.
34:05 Low fat diets may increase a woman’s risk of heart disease. Her levels of HDL (good) cholesterol fall and often triglyceride levels rise.
35:07 Many studies become “silent studies”. Since the results do not fit the narrative, they are forgotten and disappear from the literature.
36:27 Over 70 clinical trials have been done on a low carb diet, but researchers cannot get their studies published.
39:15 Researchers in the field of nutrition science stay within the realm of acceptable discourse in their field. This is why the new science about carbohydrate restriction came from people not in the field of nutrition.
43:08 60% of study diabetics on the ketogenic diet were able to reverse their diabetes. In the nutrition field, it is considered impossible.
47:16 Meat is a healthy food that contains vitamins and minerals that you cannot find elsewhere.
51:10 Eat more saturated fat to raise your HDL. Triglycerides are driven by your carbohydrate intake.
56:26 The Mediterranean diet was not scientific. It was a commercial product developed the European Olive Oil Association.
01:01:35 Epidemiology shows association, but not causation. Where their findings are tested in randomized control clinical trials, the Harvard School of Health correlation studies are correct only 0 to 20% of the time.
01:03:20 The dietary guidelines for Americans are not based in evidence. They are the most important nutrition policy in the world.
01:04:45 How do we get dietary guidelines based on rigorous evidence from clinical trials?
01:06:29 The Nutrition Coalition was founded by Nina. They work in Washington to ensure that we have guidelines based on good evidence.

Burn glucose vs burn fat
(karen) #4

Hubs was diagnosed with t2d but not off the charts, I think his initial fbg was 118? He was put on metformin, but we also had to rush out and buy the meter, the lancets, the sterile cotton, the alcohol wipes and the test strips , before even giving the metformin (which works beautifully for him) a chance. I started being very curious about whether they’d lowered the fbg threshold for officially being diabetic after spending an extra I-don’t-know-how-much on gadgets for a level that was borderline and well controlled without constant monitoring.

(Central Florida Bob ) #5

Yup.

I haven’t watched that particular video, but I read Nina’s book, have heard her interviewed and heard her give other talks. I also contribute to the Nutrition Coalition.

(Bunny) #6

She is pretty awesome! :+1: