Diabetes Prevented, (Heated Argument) Cured, Genetic Or Just Diet?

Let's hunt down the Truth about a Cure or Prevention. It is easy and convenient to pin the explosion of Type 2 Diabetes in the United States on the family tree and genetics. It is also quite convenient for the businesses selling processed food and the drug companies to ignore the issue. So we see the rise of the all natural food markets and the growth of natural supplement companies as a reaction the growing realization of what's in the food.
Here is a fun article from the American Diabetes Association that talks up a Natural food:
https://www.diabetes.org/for-media/pr-american-diabetes-association-issues-list-of-diabetes-superfoods.jsp

Diabetics might say, it's the Food
For decades, there has been plenty of indirect evidence from studies of primitive populations, that supported the low-fat and complex carbohydrate diet as a means of preventing diseases like diabetes. This research comes from all around the world. Eating Natural Plants, low fats and smaller amounts of protein vers dinning on out-of-the store Processed SuperMarket Foods seems to have been over looked by the big food processors.

The other side of the coin
Of course it could be argued, and it was in fact argued for some years, that there are genetic reasons why some populations are prone to diabetes while others seem not to be. However, the concept of a genetic origin for diabetes has been hard to square with what is known about the disease and its occurrence in different races.

There has been plenty of indirect evidence from these studies of primitive populations that supported the low-fat diet as a means of diabetes. The researchers have followed the people to the big cities and watched the changes as they turn to popular SuperMarket Food. The incidence of Diabetes rises to mimic that of the general population.

Years Ago native African Bantu were Free of Diabetes
African Bantu natives, for example, were free of diabetes, and their blood fats and blood-sugar levels are normally very low. It might be thought that these low blood-sugar levels are caused by the Bantu's genes, and that in some way these same genes protect the Bantu from diabetes. Yet in a study of Bantu prisoners of the state who were fed a diet similar to a normal American diet (namely, high in fats), it was found that their blood fats and blood-sugar responses quickly shifted in the direction of the diabetic. Soon their blood-sugar levels and blood-fat levels matched those levels common in America and in other Western cultures. Clearly it is the Bantu diet that causes these low blood-sugar levels-not Bantu genes.

Observations such as these with the Bantu and other primitive peoples, together with the fact that diabetics seems to be managed by a radical low-fat diet, complex carbohydrates and low protein intake undermined the notion of diabetes' genetic origins. The fact that there exists a familial pattern to diabetes (that is, that people in a diabetic's family are more likely to be diabetic themselves) could be seen to be completely consistent with the high-fat origins of diabetes, since people in the family of a person with a high-fat diet are more likely to be eating a high-fat, "simple" sugar carbs and high protein diet themselves. In the light of what is now known, this easy to eat, Natural diet emerges as the proper means by which to prevent and control diabetes in most cases, and the genetic defect concept of diabetes is relegated, at least for most people, to the obscurity of a disproved theory.

Let's get specific about sugar and supplements
There is a world of difference between how the body handles large complexes of sugar molecules (that is, complex carbohydrates) and its handling of sugar all by itself. A carbohydrate molecule is nothing other than a group of sugar molecules. Some carbohydrate molecules are gigantic, literally comprised of thousands of sugar molecules. On the other hand, some carbohydrate molecules are very small, consisting of only a few sugar molecules. Sucrose, for example, is a carbohydrate molecule consisting of only two sugar molecules, a glucose molecule (blood sugar) tied to a fructose molecule (fruit sugar). For a diabetic sugar is sugar and all fruits should be limited to small quantities. Sucrose is what you find on the kitchen table-what we ordinarily refer to as "table sugar."

Supplements have nothing on the benefits of eating a balanced diet of all raw natural food. It is also impossible to eat like that in the US food system. So growing number of people believe that seeking out a little help from natural proven supplements will return much in healthy quality of life to the knowledgeable health conscious person.