Not only does sugar burn blood vessels, but so does the insulin that is needed to process that sugar. The kidneys are full of very narrow blood vessels.

I've read that some people call insulin, "The killer hormone".

I see so many obese people walking around and it saddens me. I hear people talking about so many media things like a football player's career back to his high school days, a soap opera character's exploits for the past decades, what the Kardashians had for lunch, who won the Triple Crown, what Tiger Woods shot today and so on but don't know the first thing about what goes on inside their body.

To each their own I suppose.

Bob