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As far back as 1675, when western Europe was experiencing its first sugar boom, Thomas Willis, a physician and founding member of Britain’s Royal Society, noted that the urine of people afflicted with diabetes tasted “wonderfully sweet, as if it were imbued with honey or sugar.”

Just to point out, the high concentration of glucose in urine of diabetics is the result of the disease. A healthy person who just happened to eat some sugar would not have elevated glucose in urine. This of course does not rule out increased sugar consumption as a risk factor in developing type 2 diabetes (type 1 is genetic) but the article does not make it clear.

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Correction: both type 1 and type 2 diabetes have genetic risk factors. In fact, genetic factors are stronger with Type 1. I would expect to see subtype categories filter out into the mainstream in the next generation or so, as the explosion of diabetes in the developed world carries discussions of it out into the wider population. The current primary differentiator between Type 1 and 2 is Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder, while Type 2 is an insulin resistance disorder.