Death by Sugar

---

Death By Sugar (Sugar = Diabetes) Dr. Dean May 2019

I’m finally finishing Death by Sugar that I began writing in 1990.
That book got me where I am today.
When I talked about writing the book on a Canadian national TV show I set off a firestorm in the sugar industry. I guess it was because I spooned out 10 tsp of sugar into a dish to indicate the amount of sugar in a soda and 27 tsp for a milkshake.
Such blatant exposure of sugar compelled a Canadian sugar lobby group to attack me through The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The College, of course, is supposed to protect the public from harm, not protect an industry that is harming the public. But we all know we’re living in an Upsidedown World.

Dr. Dean made a 74-minute video in 2018 Diabetes is Reversible – with Magnesium, etc.

Gary Taubes in his book The Case Against Sugar (2016 Amazon $3) wrote the following history of sugar and diabetes:

• In 1890, Robert Saundby, a former president of the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society, estimated that less than one in every fifty thousand died from the diabetes. William Osler, the legendary Canadian physician often described as the “father of modern medicine,” in his Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) reported that, of the thirty-five thousand patients since the inception of Johns Hopkins Hospital, only ten had been diagnosed with diabetes.
• By 2012, one in every 7-8 adults in this country had diabetes—12-14%. Another 30% are predicted to get diabetes at some point during their lives. Almost 2 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes in 2012 – one case every 15-16 seconds. Among U.S. military veterans, one in every four patients admitted to VA hospitals suffers from diabetes.

---

See also VitaminDWiki

• Bad effects of fructose diet offset by Vitamin D supplementation (mice) - June 2019
• Mice designed to get diabetes often failed to get diabetes if they had lots of vitamin D during their lives – Feb 2014
• Prediabetes progression to diabetes 25 percent less for every 4 ng increase in vitamin D – April 2012
• Prediabetes treated by Vitamin D (34 ng, 3500 IU per day) – meta-analysis May 2018
• You Can Reverse PreDiabetes – Nov 2009 - less sugar, more Vitamin D, Magnesium, Omega-3, etc.
• The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's

---

Pages listed in BOTH of the categories Diabetes and Meta-analysis

---

Items in both categories Diabetes and Magnesium are listed here

---

Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains

• Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
• Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
• Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
• Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
• Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
• Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
      Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
• All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 542 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

• Appears that >2,000 IU will Prevent
• Appears that >4,000 IU will Treat , but not cure
• 90% less T2 Diabetes in the group having lots of Vitamin D
• Appears that Magnesium helps both Prevention and Treatment
• Many diabetics would be better treated if Gut-Friendly Vitamin D were used

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:
'This list is automatically updated''

• Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 38;   Obesity 35;  Pregnancy 44;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 24;  Genetics 12;  Magnesium 29    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

• Type 2 Diabetes treated by Vitamin D (often 50,000 IU weekly) – meta-analysis July 2023
• Diabetic inflammation synergistically decreased by Vitamin D and exercise – RCT June 2022
• Incidence of Type-2 Diabetes increased 3X in 30 years (by the way, Vitamin D helps) – July 2022
• Vitamin d treats Type II Diabetes in many ways (14 article review) - Sept 2021
• T2 Diabetes 30 percent more likely if poor Vitamin D Receptor – meta-analysis of 47 studies – July 2021
• Diabetes helped somewhat by weekly 50,000 IU of vitamin D (5 ways to improve) – RCT Aug 2021

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

• Saudi study defines normal Vitamin D level to be 50 to 70 ng (diabetes, etc.) - June 2020
• Diabetes 5X less likely if more than 50 ng of Vitamin D – April 2018

T1 Diabetes

• T1 Diabetes 3X lower risk if high vitamin D (over 40 ng) – Meta-analysis Nov 2020
• Type 1 Diabetes is prevented and treated by Vitamin D – review of 16 studies – Sept 2019
• Type 1 Diabetes prevention with Vitamin D and Omega-3 – Symposium April 2019

Pre-Diabetes

• 4X reduction in prediabetes progressing to T2D if more than 50 ng of vitamin D – RCT March 2023
• Prediabetes reduced by weekly 60,000 IU of Vitamin D – RCT Jan 2021
• Prediabetes 1.5 X more likely to go away if take Vitamin D – meta-analysis July 2020

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies
Diabetic Epidemic

• Step back to 1994. Suppose an epidemic struck the United States, causing blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations in steadily increasing numbers.
  Suppose that in less than a decade's time, the epidemic had victimized one out of every eight people
  That epidemic is real, and its name is diabetes, now the nation's sixth leading cause of death.
  Chart from the web (2018?)
  

---

See also web

• Big Sugar - Dr. Greger June 2022
  • "This comes right out of the tobacco industry’s playbook: cast doubt on the science,”
  • Similar thing expected to happen with Big Beef in 2022
• How Coca-Cola Controls and Manipulates Research Mercola May 2019
  Discovered by Freedom of Information Act
  "Coke’s Research Agreements Allow It to Bury Unfavorable Findings"
  "CDC Colludes With Coca-Cola to Deceive You"
  "CDC Official Helped Coke Influence World Health Organization"
  • Resulted in lowering the WHO upper limit on sugar
• Study Proves Sugar Is Responsible for Remarkable Rate of Disease Mercola Nov 2017
• How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks New York Times, March 2019
  •  Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
• Soda tax by cities just causes people to drive out of the city to buy the soda May 2019
  • Stanford study: There are better ways to design a soda tax
• 12 ounce extra of soda daily increased risk of death by 11%, fruit juice was far worse - increased it by 24% - JAMA May 2019
  "Association of Sugary Beverage Consumption With Mortality Risk in US Adults"
   Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki
• The Illustrated History of How Sugar Conquered the World 2017 - excellent history
• A Political Lesson on the Power of the Food Industry Dr. Greger July 2019 video and transcript
  US Govt proposed a VOLUNTARY maximum of 26% sugar content for children's cereals
  However, ALL of the top 10 brands had > 26%
  Big Cereal paid (lobbied) $175,000,000 to kill the VOLUNTARY proposal
  "...they ought to be called cereal-flavored candy, rather than sugar-covered cereals."
  Kelloggs: "When you sell a woman a product and she goes into the store and finds your brand isn’t in stock, she will probably forget about it. But when you sell a kid on your product, if he can’t get it, he will throw himself in the floor, stamp his feet, and cry. You can’t get a reaction like that out of an adult.”

---

21+ VitaminDWiki pages have SUGAR or FRUCTOSE in the title

This list is automatically updated