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War on diabetes newsletter 15th November 2025

War on diabetes newsletter 15th November 2025

Welcome to the fifteenth War on Diabetes newsletter - regular tips and ideas from someone who has had diabetes for five 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.

Is nutritive mismatch the key to how ultra-processed foods cause metabolic syndrome?

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.