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War on diabetes newsletter 25th January 2026
Welcome to the sixteenth War on Diabetes newsletter - regular tips and ideas from someone who has had diabetes for six years and learned a lot about it. It's a practical and actionable guide to details that your doctor probably won't have time to tell you about.
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What I learned this week
Is nutritive mismatch the key to how ultra-processed foods cause metabolic syndrome?
In 2017, Dana Small and her team at Yale University published a study showing that when calories and sweetness are not matched, then the calories are not metabolised properley. This has enormous implications for artificial sweeteners and artificial flavourings.
Can eating dark chocolate help to reverse type 2 diabetes?
When to eat protein to build muscle
A study that showed that margarine and vegetable oils are more likely to kill you than butter was buried in the 1970s
Fructose and alcohol cause metabolic syndrome
How to lose weight with type 2 diabetes
