Death by Sugar


Death By Sugar (Sugar = Diabetes) Dr. Dean May 2019

I’m finally finishing Death by Sugar that I began writing in 1990.
That book got me where I am today.
When I talked about writing the book on a Canadian national TV show I set off a firestorm in the sugar industry. I guess it was because I spooned out 10 tsp of sugar into a dish to indicate the amount of sugar in a soda and 27 tsp for a milkshake.
Such blatant exposure of sugar compelled a Canadian sugar lobby group to attack me through The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The College, of course, is supposed to protect the public from harm, not protect an industry that is harming the public. But we all know we’re living in an Upsidedown World.

Dr. Dean made a 74-minute video in 2018 Diabetes is Reversible – with Magnesium, etc.

Gary Taubes in his book The Case Against Sugar (2016 Amazon $3) wrote the following history of sugar and diabetes:

  • In 1890, Robert Saundby, a former president of the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society, estimated that less than one in every fifty thousand died from the diabetes. William Osler, the legendary Canadian physician often described as the “father of modern medicine,” in his Principles and Practice of Medicine (1892) reported that, of the thirty-five thousand patients since the inception of Johns Hopkins Hospital, only ten had been diagnosed with diabetes.
  • By 2012, one in every 7-8 adults in this country had diabetes—12-14%. Another 30% are predicted to get diabetes at some point during their lives. Almost 2 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes in 2012 – one case every 15-16 seconds. Among U.S. military veterans, one in every four patients admitted to VA hospitals suffers from diabetes.

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Pages listed in BOTH of the categories Diabetes and Meta-analysis


Items in both categories Diabetes and Magnesium are listed here


Overview Diabetes and vitamin D contains

  • Diabetes is 5X more frequent far from the equator
  • Children getting 2,000 IU of vitamin D are 8X less likely to get Type 1 diabetes
  • Obese people get less sun / Vitamin D - and also vitamin D gets lost in fat
  • Sedentary people get less sun / Vitamin D
  • Worldwide Diabetes increase has been concurrent with vitamin D decrease and air conditioning
  • Elderly get 4X less vitamin D from the same amount of sun
        Elderly also spend less time outdoors and have more clothes on
  • All items in category Diabetes and Vitamin D 537 items: both Type 1 and Type 2

Vitamin D appears to both prevent and treat diabetes

Number of articles in both categories of Diabetes and:
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  • Dark Skin 24;   Intervention 56;   Meta-analysis 38;   Obesity 35;  Pregnancy 44;   T1 (child) 39;  Omega-3 11;  Vitamin D Receptor 24;  Genetics 12;  Magnesium 27    Click here to see details

Some Diabetes studies

50 ng of Vitamin D fights Diabetes

T1 Diabetes

Pre-Diabetes

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Magnesium - many studies
Diabetic Epidemic

  • Step back to 1994. Suppose an epidemic struck the United States, causing blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations in steadily increasing numbers.
    Suppose that in less than a decade's time, the epidemic had victimized one out of every eight people
    That epidemic is real, and its name is diabetes, now the nation's sixth leading cause of death.
    Chart from the web (2018?)
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21+ VitaminDWiki pages have SUGAR or FRUCTOSE in the title

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Fructose, HFCS and Vitamin D - many studies 01 Jan, 2024
Vitamin D prevented brain damage by High Fructose corn syrup (in rats) – Feb 2024 07 Dec, 2023
FDA proposal: Healthy cereal can have 1 g of fat, 230 mg of sodium and 2.5 g of added sugars per serving - Sept 2022 28 Sep, 2022
Off topic: The same person paid by Big Sugar to downplay the risks of sugar was paid by Big Meat to downplay the risks of meat - July 2022 11 Jul, 2022
Fructose reduces blood levels of active vitamin D 13 Jun, 2020
Bad effects of fructose diet offset by Vitamin D supplementation (mice) - June 2019 09 Jun, 2019
Death by Sugar 12 May, 2019
The Startling Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's 02 Jun, 2018
Lots of sugar while pregnant doubles asthma risk – 2017 08 Dec, 2017
Fewer mice became prediabetic when given Vitamin D, even when on high fat, high sugar diet – March 2017 15 Mar, 2017
Fructose reduces levels of active vitamin D (not measured by standard tests) – April 2014 01 May, 2016
Fructose reduced blood levels of vitamin D and Calcium in pregnant rats – Feb 2012 01 May, 2016
Fructose altered hundreds of brain genes (in rats) unless also take Omega-3 – April 2016 01 May, 2016
High-fructose diet slows recovery from brain injury - TBI, rats - Oct 2015 01 May, 2016
Fructose (High Fructose Corn Syrup) consumes 2X more Magnesium than sugar – May 2014 01 May, 2016
Too much fructose reduced both serum and active vitamin D in rats – April 2013 12 Oct, 2015
Off Topic: Diabetes 11X increase for just 150 calories of sugar - June 2015 05 Aug, 2015
Fructose reduces levels of active vitamin D in rats – April 2014 08 Jan, 2015
HFCS or fructose decreases Calcium and vitamin D if have CKD – Feb 2010 30 Jul, 2014
High Fructose Corn Syrup consumes 2X more Magnesium than sugar – May 2014 27 May, 2014
Low vitamin D levels linked to poor blood sugar control in type 2 diabetes – June 2010 18 Jul, 2010
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