>I've never seen sugar implicated as a cause of type II diabetes.
Sugar has been implicated as a cause of type II diabetes by many people [1]. Whether they are right or not is up for debate.
Even my great grandmother, born in 1915, used to warn that too much sugar would cause diabetes. According to her this was conventional wisdom when she was young.
And my grandmother said dietary oil causes acne. Conventional wisdom isn't science. If it were, all science would ever do is confirm conventional wisdom.
I'm not arguing conventional wisdom is evidence that sugar causes diabetes.
The GP said he or she had never seen sugar implicated as a cause, like that was something he'd never heard of--when in fact it was and is a common belief. Whether that belief is true isn't something I'm arguing.
Sugar has been implicated as a cause of type II diabetes by many people [1]. Whether they are right or not is up for debate.
Even my great grandmother, born in 1915, used to warn that too much sugar would cause diabetes. According to her this was conventional wisdom when she was young.
[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/02/28/173170149/sugars...