Sugar Does Not Cause Diabetes… Read!

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Sugar does not cause diabetes. Ingesting gobs and gobs of sugar will not cause diabetes. Very basically, insulin turns sugars into energy (everything you eat breaks down into sugars-NOT table sugar).

 

Type1 (juvenile onset) diabetes the pancreas does not produce any insulin, requiring injection of insulin (there was research being done on an inhaled insulin, no idea what’s happening with it now), as well as diet changes and exercise.

 

 

Type2 (adult onset) the body isn’t able to utilize the insulin produced (I’m a type1, I don’t know as much about type2), which requires meds and/or diet changes and exercise.

 

 

Then you get..fingersticks, 4+ times a day to check how your bloodsugars are doing.

 

 

Blood draws every 3 months or so for a Hemoglobin A1c test, which checks how bloodsugars have been for the past 3 months.

 

 

And, you have to really watch your diet, especially how many carbohydrates (as well as figuring simple or complex carbs) you intake.

 

 

I will say things are quite a bit better today (I was diagnosed in 84), with glucose meters that are now a pad attached with a scanner, NO MORE, or at least many, many fewer) fingersticks. I am on an insulin pump about the size of a pager (friend in diabetic summer camp had a pump, around 85/86, it was the size of an old cassette player), so one shot every 3 days to install the pump, rather than 5+ injections a day. And the Hemoglobin A1c test can be done in the Dr’s office with a fingerstick, rather than having to go to the lab for a blood draw (typically the vein in the elbow).

 

 

Then you can also get into long term complications. Losing feeling in extremities, sometimes requiring amputation. Vision problems. Neuropathy. My heart problems were blamed partly as a diabetic complication. Weight gain…it just keeps getting better.

 

 

But no, sugar in itself does not cause diabetes.

 

-quora