Sorry for the quick off-topic (btw, for teeth ---if I wasn't already on a dietary regimen entirely compatible with human teeth and thus no need for tooth care--- I'd swear by anything Xylitol, if the family can afford it; research it, not sure if it can fix such a broken black mouth but would be good to apply even before the next set of teeth, it is a brilliantly anticariogenic molecule and one that's even synthesized in our own livers, so not "some nasty synthetic/chemical/antibiotic/mouthwash" --- research its mechanisms, doesn't need to be eaten just rinsed-with, alas it's a bit pricey at ~€12/kg) --- but..
Alexandra wrote:That myth was busted a long time ago. Eating sugar does not cause diabetes
True, "eating sugar" does not magically switch on a "activate diabetes now" toggle in your pancreas overnight.
Dangerously high blood sugar levels are usually detected when T2D is finally diagnosed in someone, preceding that condition was what? usually decades of undetected high blood insulin levels to keep blood sugar levels at healthy levels stable despite chronic ingestion of hyper-caloric, hyper-insulinogenic food stuffs. Only when either the pancreatic beta cells cave in first or many/most tissue cells became so highly insulin resistant that no amount of insulin can lower blood sugars, do "high blood sugars" manifest themselves. Now, the most hyper-insulinogenic meals are high-carb meals low in fibre and low in fat. "Eating sugar" (no one ever does that anyway) never "caused" T2D in a direct fashion, sure, but adding sugar for easier, cheaper palatibility to 90+% of edible (and drinkable) concoctions nowadays available in grocery stores, mini marts, supermarkets, gas stations, restaurants (sauces etc) and so forth over the past 3-4 decades combined with the low-(animal)-fat, more-veg-oils mantras introduced (and indeed followed widely) during the same time frame correlates frighteningly strong with off-the-charts skyrocketing diabetes (and other "metabolic syndrome") stats around the world.