Robert Lustig: Sugar, Ultra-Processed Food, and Insulin Drive Diabetes and Metabolic Disease
This YouTube talk (Robert Lustig: Sugar, Ultra-Processed Food, and Insulin Drive Diabetes and Metabolic Disease) includes epidemiological projections for global diabetes prevalence: speaker notes that by 2021 there were about 537 million people with diabetes, projects ~568 million by 2030, and cites a more recent projection of ~763 million by 2045. The work connects diabetes trends to topics of sugar, ultra-processed foods, and insulin (further detail expected in later chunks).
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