Do people actually get diabetes from eating too much sweets, or is it mainly hereditary?
People Get Diabetes From Eating Too Much Sugar?
February 4th, 2010 § Tags: Diabetes, Eating, Much, People, Sugar Posted in Diabetes § § 9 comments
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My mom told me that diabetes is causing from eating too many sugary foods. (Ha! What a myth.)
She also told me that I had pimples/acne because I ate too much peanut butter. Of course, the dermatologist gave her the real reason (rising hormone levels), and she came to her senses.
Scientists are still working on the cause of diabetes. Since there are different types of diabetes, each type has a unique possible cause.
The main cause of diabetes is the body’s failure to produce enough of the insulin hormone. Another cause could be that the body develops a resistance to insulin.
General classifications:
* Type I diabetes is caused by decreased insulin production.
* Type II is insulin resistant in peripheral tissues.
* In juvenile diabetes, the cause could be a lack of vitamin D.
If you have a predisposition for type ii diabetes, consuming large quantities of sugar could trigger it or acceralerate it. Eating a lot of sugar can cause weight can which can cause type ii diabetes.
There are studies that find no link between sugar consumption and diabetes. There are many studies that indicate a diet low in sugar will prevent type ii diabetes.
So they are saying that sugar does not cause type ii diabetes, but eating less sugar prevent type ii diabetes.
So, if you are one of the people that is going to get type ii diabetes, you can get it much sooner by eating a lot of sugar. Do you want to eat a lot of sugar and find out this is you?
This may not be 100% proven, but it is probably a risk not worth taking.
you don’t get it from eating too much sweets, There are many factors that contribute to having diabetes. to find out if you truly at risk you need to see your family DR.
Here are a few links that should help:http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/di…http://www.westerndiabetic.com/Diabetes-…
good luck!
Not really. Overeating, especially sugary stuff, is only one of the several known and unknown reasons behind diabetes. And many people never get diabetes through overeating. One need to have susceptibility to a condition called ‘insulin resistance’ to get diabetes through overeating. In such persons too much sugary stuff produce too much insulin that results in a resistance to insulin in the body’s cells. To counter it the body produces even more insulin. Sustained overeating in such persons increase the insulin resistance permanently as it is a vicious cycle. This condition is also called pre-diabetes. In a subset of such people, continued overeating of sugars can contribute to insulin resistance. To know more, visit the link below:
http://www.seasonalmagazine.com/2009/07/diabetes-symptoms-revisited-are-they.html
You DO NOT become diabetic by eating sugar. The pancreas does not produce insulin or the body does not use the insulin correctly, that is what makes a diabetic.
The only thing eating too much sweets or junk food causes is tooth decay!!
Eating sugar does NOT cause diabetes at all ever!!!http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/
Eating sugar does not cause diabetes. There is no food that causes diabetes.
Sugar does NOT cause diabetes.
The human body developed on this planet over the past 2 million years. During all but the last 8,000 of those years (and 8,000 years when you are talking of an evolutionary time frame is but the blink of an eye), the human body evolved eating meat, fat and high fiber vegetables, with some roots and tubers.
Eight thousand years ago the “agricultural revolution” took place, with man learning how to domesticate grain. Virtually overnight, man became dependant upon carbohydrates as the main source of food. Archeologists point to that exact time period that the average height of man drops by two inches and all of the degenerative diseases we have today became prevalent in the society of that time.
With today’s accepted high carbohydrate diet it is projected that by the year 2025 there will be over 300 million diabetics planet wide. It is just not the diet our bodies evolved with.
Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.
If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!
This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)
Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.
The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.