I’m not disputing this study, just adding some insight. My experiences. My family used to live in rural MD and the Amish used to park their buggies at Wawa and come out with all kinds of junk or be in line with you with same type food. I’m skeptical about the no diabetes thing. They’re not necessarily completely homemade/grown and natural. We saw many overweight Amish ppl. They’d come to our community garage sales. All shapes and sizes and some smoked cigs, pipes and I’d say it’s hard to make any assumptions they’re rigidly strict about their way of life.

That said, we used to go to some of their local bakeries or markets and they had THE best desserts and stuff. Outstanding. We went to a big Amish furniture place once and they make incredible things. Fireplaces, you name it. I wish we had that down in FL. They were on laptops and they actually have a lot of online presence selling things.

They have this thing, rumspringa where the adolescents are expected to “sow their wild oats” and basically party for months until they decide whether or not to continue in the Amish tradition/life and let me tell ya, I have partied with them and they can put away some beer etc. Anyway, just some random recollections. Pretty cool people, overall.