My son will be dementia proof! We basically tried our best to not give him any added sugar until he was 3. Now, he will rule over all you demented peasants!
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2026
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“Added” sugar and natural sugar .. soesnt matter
The body turns both of it into glucagon in your body anyway, and in insulin spikes. Doesnt matter if its natural carbs from flour or the sugars found in an apple, or table sugar stuffed in your drink. (Of course fructose is a bit different as thats handled in your liver…)
Things with added sugar tend to have more sugar than things with natural sugars.
I get that, and we limited all sugar, but he still had fruits and veggies. Just no candy, ice cream, cupcakes, anything like that. I think that’s still an improvement over the regular American diet.
So we’re basically all fucked, compared to what we’ve seen so far. I definitely ate more sugar as a young child than my grandmother, born just before WWI. My parents might have had more than me (though almost certainly not), but lots of places still had food rations for much of the baby boomers’ early childhood.
I don't know why you'd conclude that we're going to be worse off than older generations. Dementia is multifaceted, and associated with a lot of variables, including some that have decreased over time.
Younger generations are far less likely to smoke, less likely to be exposed to concussive or sub concussive head trauma, and less likely to be exposed to loud noises that cause hearing loss. The standard of care for cardiovascular health is different, too, and faster interventions with statins and GLP-1s, greater availability and adherence to vaccine schedules (especially the shingles vaccine), all may result in much better old age health.
Will that make up for greater exposure to other factors that make us less healthy? I'd actually think so.
Mental conditions are never as straight faced as they may seem. Multi variableness is a factor that shouldnt be dismissed.
Yeah, my grandmother was born in Italy in the 30s and probably never had processed sugar in her life. She got dementia. She also lived with dementia for 15 years, severe for the last 10, which is crazy. Fortunately, she never seemed, while I was around, scared or anything, just very quiet, like she was lost in her own thoughts, which I guess she was.
Sugar is already heavily linked to dementia
Its starting to called type 3 diabetes
Sugar is a completely unnecessary nutrient for humans anyway
I call bullshit. Didn't read the paper but:
How you are going to know about the sugar intake? Trust me bro.
Causality!=causation
“More research is needed to better understand the potential relationship between sugar intake and the development of dementia." 👍
There is a strong correlation between diabetes and dementia. Known for decades.
Glucose metabolism is a lazy inefficient way to make ATP, with toxic metabolic products seen to damage brain DNA.
Causality!=causation
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Edit: If I understand correctly, you use causality in the physics sense, meaning just that something happens after something else (accounting for the speed of light). It seems that in almost all contexts, the two terms are synonyms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causation?wprov=sfla1 - basically all disambiguation targets assume the terms are equivalent.
I'll just assume the second word (or the first, doesn't matter) should have been "correlation". It doesn't make sense otherwise.