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Based on its Deaths 2002 report, Statistics Canada reported 7,800 deaths from Type 2 diabetes causes in 2002, 11 per cent higher than the year before. As of 2003, 4.6 per cent of Canadians suffer from diabetes. The rising numbers in both cases of and deaths related to adult onset or Type 2 diabetes which develops when the body can no longer control blood sugar levels reflect the growing obesity epidemic in Canada and the US. Although linked to genetic makeup, Type 2 diabetes is strongly associated with obesity. Almost half (47 per cent) of (or 9 million) adult (20-64 years old) Canadians are overweight, of which 12 percent or 2.2 million are obese. The obesity and overweight figures in turn reflect the sedentary lifestyles and unhealthy diets of Canadians. As Dr. Di Pasquale has warned in the Metabolic Diet, Radical Diet and Anabolic Solution books, the growing problem with excess weight and obesity in North America has a lot to do with excessive consumption of carbohydrates, sugar and saturated fats. Sugary drinks, for example, had been linked with weight gain in a major Harvard School of Public Health study involving 50,000 women. In the study, those who drank one or more sugar-sweetened beverages a day gained an average of 10 pounds in a four-year period. They also showed an 83 per cent increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes compared with those who had one or less a month. Meir Stampfer, one of the authors of the study believes that's because such drinks have a high glycemic index (see article ''The Real Score with Glycemic Index''). ''The sugared soft-drinks are very rapidly absorbed and they cause a sharp up-swing in blood sugar, which causes a sharp increase in insulin production, and then this causes the blood sugar to go down.'' That yo-yo effect can tax the body's ability to regulate its blood-sugar levels and lead to the onset of type 2 diabetes. Sources: Ontario Heart & Stroke Foundation
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