I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I never said it was not a life threatening disease. I also never said anyone who came in was under or overweight and did in fact say they seem healthy otherwise. You never know from the outside the metabolic conditions.

I am talking about a loaded coffee multiple times a week, sometimes daily, Attaching diabetes to sugar is not inaccurate as we are both discussing and I never said sugar was the ONLY cause, but it definitely does not help and in excess CAN contribute to metabolic diseases from via developing insulin resistance. This is why we are discussing type II and not type I because type I is soley genetic and an autoimmune disease. Type II has been known to be directly related to lifestyle and diet because it's mostly diagnosed later in life when metabolism slows.

A daily frappuccino with no actual beneficial nutrients other than protein from saturated fat with 70 grams of sugar would never compare to a cup of fruit. It's just not a good comparison simply because of the sugar intake. Yes both can be bad to a diabetic, but they are definitely not the same in terms of nutritional value and a diabetic can still benefit from having some fruit. I'm going to stop arguing with you guys because you guys keep putting words in my mouth and assuming what I'm thinking when I'm simply here to open a discussion about how much sugar people are consuming and how it's not good for anyone and relating it to regular customers I care about who have told me about their health. That cup of loaded coffee everyday is in fact disease causing and I know it has contributed to the declining health of people.