audreyh1
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This is the great mystery. Perhaps the food is more processed. In China there was almost no sucrose in the diet at all until recently. However India which invented cane sugar 2500 years ago has lots of traditional sweets*. Maybe they eat more sweets now. Perhaps it’s the addition of modern things like HFCS and unhealthy oils. Western style fast food is much more common in major urban areas. Perhaps there has been a drop in physical activity (urbanization, industrialization). Perhaps as countries become wealthier they eat more. Probably a combination of many factors and hard to say what dominates, but the outcome is shocking.This is what's so puzzling to me. Their diets have always been very high in carbs (mainly very fast-acting carbs like white rice), yet diabetes wasn't prevalent until Western-style processed foods became readily available. What kind of western-style processed foods is the cause, do you think? A lot of high fructose corn syrup products?
Worth noting is that folks from the Far East and India that immigrated to the US in the past also tended to develop typical western chronic diseases. But now it’s happening at in the countries themselves.
* I remember a most disgusting Indian sweet snack called jalebis growing up and I never understood how someone could eat something that sweet.
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