Dr. Katie To explains how acidity and refined sugar drive childhood diabetes. Acidic foods erode tooth enamel and increase body acidity, while refined sugar causes inflammation that leads to metabolic disease. Children as young as ten are now developing diabetes from modern diets.
It's crazy to see a 10-year-old and start having diabetes already. Number one is definitely acidity. I want to make sure that when I'm eating anything, I want to pay attention to, is it acidic to my teeth? Is it going to be acidic to my body? Is that going to make my body more acidic? Okay. By the way, eating in stress, stressful environment, eating in stressful environment is making your food acidic. You make sure you eat slow, slowly, enjoy your food, chewing your food enough that can— your saliva can break your food down. And then the second for me is sugar. And I'm not talking about the natural sugar, but it's the refined sugar, white sugar, the dangerous sugar. And that definitely raising your inflammation, that the one that runs through your blood and getting all chronic issues. And that is the reason we have a lot of children that have diabetes these days. It's crazy to see a 10-year-old and start having diabetes already. Metabolic disease is coming from what we're eating, and sugars is one of the big culprits of that.
