Why Aren't Kenyan Runners Diabetic?

They are, it just doesn't hit them until they stop running. also they don't have sugar in everything else like Westerners.

Their tea is your coca cola

1) Young

2) Those that survive childhood likely have extremely strong gut biota.

3) Not growing up on junk food

4) High mileage

5) This is only one-two generations in to the downward slide of refined food diet. They will decline much further, like China and other countries.

With this combination, sugar is like rocket fuel for them. Completely different than the typical American, and not replicable. They pay the price on the back end.

lk wrote:

Just spent 1.5 months training in Kenya and the amount of sugar they ingest would make an American a diabetic. Is it purely because these guys/girls were running 2 x day and long runs? We'd finish a run and would have say 6 oz of tea with about 7 spoonfulls of white sugar.

Anyway, we could learn from them.

Morocco it’s just as bad if not worse. Tea there is so sweet it’s just disgusting

All sugar is not equal. They ingest table sugar ( cane sugar) , which is sucrose, a balance of fructose and glucose.

Here in the states we ingest mostly FRUCTOSE, HIGH CORN SYRUP FRUCTOSE, and that s h i t will kill you. Only the liver breaks down fructose, and the liver is responsible for storing glycogen. So when the liver gets overworked because of the constant intake of FRUCTOSE, the liver will start to lose its functionality.

That is the difference.

lk wrote:

Just spent 1.5 months training in Kenya and the amount of sugar they ingest would make an American a diabetic. Is it purely because these guys/girls were running 2 x day and long runs? We'd finish a run and would have say 6 oz of tea with about 7 spoonfulls of white sugar.

Anyway, we could learn from them.

I remember sometime after the 1996 Olympics I was nearing the end of high school, and a guy who was in my older brother's class turn up to speak about his experiences in Atlanta and tried to amaze the audience about the free things in the athlete's village. He claimed that there was vending machines that dispensed free Mars bars. He claimed that late one night when got back from the rowing venue to the village after his semi, he saw three skinny African runners cleaning out the Mars bar machine to take back home. I still think it was a load of nonsense but the notion that Africans don't eat junk is just that, junk.

what about their teeth? Cavities?

offered without comment wrote:

https://thescienceofnutrition.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/japan-graph.png?w=800

Some research is now suggesting that fat is in fact the cause of diabetes.

JAKIR wrote:

lk wrote:

Just spent 1.5 months training in Kenya and the amount of sugar they ingest would make an American a diabetic. Is it purely because these guys/girls were running 2 x day and long runs? We'd finish a run and would have say 6 oz of tea with about 7 spoonfulls of white sugar.

Anyway, we could learn from them.

Morocco it’s just as bad if not worse. Tea there is so sweet it’s just disgusting

and you don't have sugar in your tea. Nearly every processed product in West has sugar added eg bread cereals, sauces

Obesity is also probably the main contribution to diabetes which does not really apply to Kenyan runners.

To think adding 1 or 2 sugars to tea makes there diet similar to an American one shows a simplicity if thought.

I can't speak for Kenya, but I spend 4 years in Zambia and obesity and diabetes are mushrooming there, particularly in urban areas where US/South African fast food chains are popping up and junk food is becoming widely available. People are going from stunted and underweight to obese within a generation. Also people are eating huge quantities of refined maize nshima (ugali). Traditionally people ate whole grained sorgum or millet nshima with their vegetables and meat-These large quantities of refined maize (corn) along with junk food and increasingly sedentary urban lifestyles is really messing up people's health. Being thin and active is a sign of being poor or having HIV, so people actually prefer to be big (fat) and eat junk food as a status symbol.

Kenyan runners are still far younger than the age for the onset of Type 2 diabetes and they are skinny, which is another mitigating factor.

The seven teaspoons of sugar in a cup of tea mentioned by the OP is still less than the eight found in a 12-oz can of Coke.

Pantman wrote:

offered without comment wrote:https://thescienceofnutrition.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/japan-graph.png?w=800

Some research is now suggesting that fat is in fact the cause of diabetes.

Link?

Is your fat mother prove enough? I don’t know about you, but I don’t see too many skinny type 2 diabetics walking around.

At the Youngstown Peace Race in 2014 Dunkin donuts was one of the sponsors. The only people around the table of donuts were kenyan. I watched Patrick Cheptoek eat two cream-filled donuts just 45 minutes before the race.....he won in 29:17.

This not news.

Animal fats are especially harmful. And nobody gets diabetes from a bowl of peaches. Whole grain consumption is protective; refined grains destructive.

But truth be told Africans are prone.to Diabetes when eating US corporate diet.

Animal products and low fiber, refined sugars diet is poison.

Enough to go around wrote:

Is your fat mother prove enough? I don’t know about you, but I don’t see too many skinny type 2 diabetics walking around.

Asking about dietary fat, not body fat. And the word you were looking for is "proof", not "prove".

Up is down. 5+7 =2. Eating magic angel farts prevents cancer.The Inuit and Masai, who for hundreds of generations ate almost 100% animal-based diet, ALL died from diabetes until Ancel Keys and John McDougall gave them brown rice and saved them. Despite being surrounded by large animals full of protein and energy, our pre-agricultural ancestors all thrived off of wheat bran muffins instead.

dsrunner wrote:

This not news.

Animal fats are especially harmful. And nobody gets diabetes from a bowl of peaches. Whole grain consumption is protective; refined grains destructive.

But truth be told Africans are prone.to Diabetes when eating US corporate diet.

Animal products and low fiber, refined sugars diet is poison.

+1000. The bizarro dietary spew we see in younger generations (plus older hippie types) is insane. Just a few generations ago, people in this world starved to death, regularly. Now we live in a world of much-more-than-plenty, and you whiny bitches complain. The Kenyans, like all others, will adapt to eat a diet of ease and plenty. The stupid ones will overindulge and get fat. Phukk them. Bottom line is that it's awesome to live in a world of plenty, and it's only the stupid fools who complain about the plenty.You can stick your quinoa, whole grain and air-food right up your asss. People who eat super healthy die from heart attack and get cancer too. I'll enjoy my butter, my animal fat, my sugar, my booze and my running while I still breathe and walk this earth.

bsrunner wrote:

Up is down. 5+7 =2. Eating magic angel farts prevents cancer.

The Inuit and Masai, who for hundreds of generations ate almost 100% animal-based diet, ALL died from diabetes until Ancel Keys and John McDougall gave them brown rice and saved them.

Despite being surrounded by large animals full of protein and energy, our pre-agricultural ancestors all thrived off of wheat bran muffins instead.

dsrunner wrote:

This not news.

Animal fats are especially harmful. And nobody gets diabetes from a bowl of peaches. Whole grain consumption is protective; refined grains destructive.

But truth be told Africans are prone.to Diabetes when eating US corporate diet.

Animal products and low fiber, refined sugars diet is poison.