I was going to put this under /s/noshitsherlock since it also fits but it is technically health so yeah. Who would have thought that what we have been told for DECADES might be correct? Too much sugar in your diet = type 2 diabetes. It is not that complicated. Archive: https://archive.today/HXVoS From the post: >>The consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) is associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD). However, an updated and comprehensive assessment of the global burden attributable to SSBs remains scarce. Here we estimated SSB-attributable T2D and CVD burdens across 184 countries in 1990 and 2020 globally, regionally and nationally, incorporating data from the Global Dietary Database, jointly stratified by age, sex, educational attainment and urbanicity.