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by 462436347 838 days ago
> If we look at the Blue Zone, many people eat mostly carb. So carb/high GI food definitely doesn't cause diabetes.

While obesity is known to be the greatest risk factor for T2DM, you can induce insulin resistance in weight-stable individuals just by shifting the macro composition of their diet towards saturated fat:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7171936/

Sugar, amusingly, doesn't seem to have the same effect.

Given that the typical recreational CGM wearer (in my experience) is a low-carb/keto type (who ruined their insulin sensitivity), you should probably take the comments in this thread touting CGM use with a grain of salt.