Diabetes can only originate form insulin resistance
Insulin resistance can only originates from high body fat percentage and
overweight
No one getting diabetes has ever been either thin and lean or depiste
being underweight lowe body fat percentage
So, the answer is simple that people 100 years ago used to eat less and
move/work more
Children used to play or do chores all the day along in the outside,
climbing trees, swimming and running
Poverty was higher and few of them could afford lot of foods or even
meat and fish (that become a symbol of wealth and richness)
The only meat they ate was the one they hunted
Those meat came from animals that was breed or lived freely
Those wild meat was 85% less saturated fats than the ones people consume
today
It contained far more protein and very few fat

Bottom line is that 100 years ago diabetes was rare because there were
not enough money and technology so it was not easy to overeat, it was
not easy to be sedentary, it was not easy to have an high body fat
percentage and it was not eays to eat fatty meat or refined products

Now, take rich people for example
They could eat anything they wanted and was rather sedentary
It is well know that rich people or noble people were always sick and
suddered from several lipid and sugar metabolism ailments even 200 years ago

Diabetes was not known 100 years ago even in those countries where they
ate very few meat and a lot of unrefined grains and legumes
Mountain countries of the Central Europe used to have a lot of hard
worker and they kept themselves healthy and strong by eating nuts
(chestnuts was a staple for these people) legumes and grains (their main
dish was a soup maid of several different whole cereals like millet,
barley, oat, and wheat and legumes like lentils, black beans and kidney
beans) polenta (made with whole buckwheat flour) fruits and vegetale and
 few wild deer meat (very low in fat)
Diabetes was not much known also on Rural Asian countries or European
Meditteranean countries like Crete or Greece

Their diet was moderate fat and high carbohydrates
The point is that the fact that 100 years ago diabetes was not known is
not a proof that 65/70/80/90% fat diet are the way to go

Daniel

  Where the f.ck

And there was no TV, computers and cars in many families. I rode a
bike to school and back (10 miles) and after school and weekends, we
all walked for miles in the bush making cubby houses and having "wars"
with other groups of kids.

But we burned it all off!

I suggest many folk have cut down ALL fats. I certainly have. All
meats are much fattier today than I remember when I was a kid.

And some were. But as I said above, we weren't obese. THAT's the basic
cause. After that, fats can be a powerful accelerator of that disease.

Exercise!

Was it really?

I think I just did!

Precisely. Did you forget exercise?

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