Diets high in fat can disrupt blood sugar levels and trigger diabetes, researchers said in a study on Wednesday that helps explain the link between obesity and a disease typically linked to sugar.Fatty foods can suppress an enzyme crucial to the production of insulin, which regulates sugar in the blood, according to scientists at the University of California at San Diego.Obesity has long been linked to type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease in which the body does not make enough insulin, or cannot properly use it.In the United States, two out of three adults are overweight or obese. Experts have said obese people are up to 80 times more likely to develop diabetes, and both conditions are on the rise.The new findings, published in the journal Cell, offer another explanation of exactly how the two are linked.
