A speaker argues that dietary fats, not sugar, cause diabetes by damaging cell membranes and blocking insulin receptors. They eat 200-400g of carbs daily from rice, honey, and fruit while maintaining 6.5% body fat and 0.8% liver fat, claiming 15 years without bad fats proves high carbs alone don't cause the disease.
I don't believe that having high amounts of sugar causes or even is related to diabetes. I think that it's bad fats because bad fats break cell membranes. You can't express insulin receptors through them. So blood glucose builds up, the body makes more insulin. So you have high insulin, muscles become fatty, they can't uptake glucose anymore and you get broken cells. And broken cells are going to cause all sorts of problems that way. And based on those ideas I can have carbs. In fact I have 2 to 400 grams of carbs a day and probably more rice than I do sugar. And I don't eat white sugar but I will have some honey or some fruit or whatever. I'm 6.5% body fat. My visceral fat is at the very low end for an 18 year old and it gets higher as it goes. My liver fat is 0.8%. I'm not on a low carb diet. I don't eat bad fats ever. I haven't for 15 years.
