Diabetes and obesity research

If you go to the link below you will find interesting information on studies of diabetes and obesity using monkeys.  I care for the fact that they're using monkeys or the conditions that they live in, but what they are learning appears to beneficial and along the lines that many here on CZ already know.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41692358/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/

Some quotes from the link:

High-fructose corn syrup seems to accelerate obesity
Dr. Grove and researchers at some other centers say the high-fructose corn syrup appears to accelerate the development of obesity and diabetes.

“It wasn’t until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat,” said Anthony G. Comuzzie, who helped create an obese baboon colony at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio.

Still, about 40 percent do not put on a lot of weight.

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Barbara C. Hansen of the University of South Florida said calories, but not high fat, were important. “To suggest that humans and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion,” she said.

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Dr. Hansen, who has been doing research on obese monkeys for four decades, prefers animals that become naturally obese with age, just as many humans do. Fat Albert, one of her monkeys who she said was at one time the world’s heaviest rhesus, at 70 pounds, ate “nothing but an American Heart Association-recommended diet,” she said.

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This is my own comment here.  Just like the American Heart Association recommended diet, I believe that the American Diabetes Association diet give you diabetes.