This was very intense research and knowledge you just shared. Am sorry for your friend too.

Ejis did not drink coke. In fact he never drank any mineral water or soda as some would call it. He did drink beer a lot and smoked a lot. So how did diabetes get him, I wondered. I often told him to smoke less.

Studies have shown that beer contains more sugar than coke, because for beer to get to the acceptable taste it has it contains double if the sugar in coke.

Also, alcohol has more calories of 7kcal while carbohydrate has just 4kcal so we do the maths. Though alcohol is nit bad but excesdive intake is detrimental. Instead of taking much of a beer it is very rich to take red wines and in moderate quantities too as little acohol helps to burn body fat. Simply too much of everything could be bad.

Like you explained diabetic is tied to obesity because once the body is resistant to insulin the fat and sugar are not acted upon and so the individual suffers accumulation of fat which leads to obesity.

That is the resaon why these patients are encouraged to exercise often and take insulin for those suffering from type 1 diabetes.

Am a lover of coke but I have very high metabolic rate and so my body tends to use it fast and I burn it in activities too.

Thank you very much for sharing this information @churcboy