When thinking of diabetes most people think that while what kind of carbs you eat is important, the amount is also. Meaning if you eat a ton of lower glycemic indexed carbs, that is almost or just as bad as eating a low amount of high glycemic carbs. However, according to recent research says, it’s not so how much carbohydrates you eat that causes type 2 diabetes, but more importantly what kind.

Havard medical school researchers took data over 25 years of studies. The results showed that fat and protein were not correlated with type 2 diabetes. However, simple carbohydrates had high correlations and corn syrup had a .84 correlation. 1 is the strongest correlation you can have between cause and effect. Other “low glycemic” carbohydrates had low correlation between diabetes.