The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong

The definitive guide to insulin, blood sugar, and type 2 diabetes.

And you'll understand it. Bite me, ADA. We all know by now that

type 2 diabetes is an epidemic. We're seeing words like crisis and runaway all over the news and

in the journals. Heart disease rates have been cut in half since the staggering

margarine days of the 1980s, but diabetes has swiftly risen to fill that gaping void and meet

the challenge of completely unnecessary disease epidemic. Here's my ultra-simple explanation of the entire insulin, blood sugar, type 2

diabetes mess. Big Agra could really care less about you. That's just business. The pharmaceutical

industry is not in it for the love of life. If that were the case, drugs would be cheaper.

The FDA has to think about public health, but it also has to think about treading carefully on the toes of corporate interests,

because that's how it works when you're the biggest economy in the world. Print this explanation

out, stick it on your fridge, email it to your aunt, and put down the pasta.

When you eat food, the body digests the macronutrients, carbohydrates, proteins, actually many different amino acids, and fats.

Anything it can't digest, like alcohol or fiber or toxins, either passes right through

or, if it makes it into the bloodstream, gets filtered by your liver, a beast of an organ if there

ever was one. We measure those macronutrients in grams and calories, but your body operates in terms of fuel.

If you eat more fuel than your body needs, which most people do, the body is forced to store this excess.

This ability to store excess fuel was an evolutionary imperative in a world that was in a constant state of

feast or famine, 50,000 years ago. In terms of primal health and our DNA blueprint, humans became

very efficient fuel storage specialists and were able to survive the rigors of a hostile environment

and pass those very same genes down to you and me.

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