Some researchers, Bierman and West acknowledged, had “argued eloquently” that refined carbohydrates such as sugar could be a precipitating factor in diabetes (citing Peter Cleave and Aharon Cohen, but not Yudkin). They did not find the idea compelling, however, and omitted any further study of the role of sugar from their research recommendations. “A review of all laboratory and epidemiologic evidence,” they wrote, “suggests that the most important dietary factor increasing the risk of diabetes is total calorie intake, irrespective of source.”
Why is it that again and again scientists did not see compelling evidence on this research that sugar was the cause? What am I missing?
