Diabetics?!
Question: I'm wondering how one acquires diabetes later in life. I'm 21, and although I regret this, I've eaten tons of sugar the past week and a half. Altogether 3 bags of Vday candy and maybe 1 or 2 sodas a day (mostly Sprite). I can feel that I've had too much sugar. Will this amount cause me to go into a diabetic coma or something? I wasn't nice to my body, and now I'm scared. I've always consumed high amounts of sugar, so my body can take a pretty good amount. Is there just a line, and if I happen to cross it I have diabetes for the rest of my life?
Answers: I'm wondering how one acquires diabetes later in life. I'm 21, and although I regret this, I've eaten tons of sugar the past week and a half. Altogether 3 bags of Vday candy and maybe 1 or 2 sodas a day (mostly Sprite). I can feel that I've had too much sugar. Will this amount cause me to go into a diabetic coma or something? I wasn't nice to my body, and now I'm scared. I've always consumed high amounts of sugar, so my body can take a pretty good amount. Is there just a line, and if I happen to cross it I have diabetes for the rest of my life?
My sister has been diabetic since she was one year old. It is not something you get from eating to much sugar. That will only give you a tummyache or a big tummy.No worries
type 2 diabetes is diet related.. but its also passed down.. if it's in your family you should be really cautious... and you shouldn't do that to your body. it's bad in the first place... IF you are really preventative try to get some excercise, if its not in your fam you should be fine
Too much sugar can overload your insulin production and cause a burnout. Just like you can break your arm trying to lift a car, you can break your pancreas counteracting an entire birthday cake. However, genetics & other risk factors are also involved.
Treat your body well. You never know what you could trigger.
you can't go into a diabetic coma unless you're already diabetic. its not like you eat sugar, go into a coma and wake up diabetic. a diabetic coma just means that your body has been giving the symptoms for a while, but if you don't know what they are and don't get diagnosed or treated soon enough, you can go into a diabetic coma. same if you are diagnosed but take bad care of yourself. unless you've been eating like that all your life, a few weeks of sugar won't hurt you. but yes if you do get diabetes you will have it forever [unless they find a cure.] type two diabetes comes mostly through genetics, often through obese people. "crossing a line" for a few weeks will not trigger diabetes. no way.
Too much sugar does not cause diabetes. It's not healthy to eat like that...but it won't cause diabetes to happen.
Eating sweets does not... and will never... cause diabetes.
*However* if you are predisposed to type 2, you CAN speed up its diagnosis by eating crap and lack of exercise. Contrarywise, you can slow down its onset by eating right and taking care of your health. So sweets plays a part in type 2 onset, but will never cause the disease. Type 2 is primarily genetic, so if there is type 2 diabetes in your family, you should be careful how much junk you eat, you may be predisposed. Eating right is never a bad idea! Type 2 is not as direct as type 1 in its target, and cousins, nephews and grandchildren are all within its reach.
Type 1 has even less to do with the ingestion of sugar. Type 1 can be genetic, more often though, the body turns against itself, specifically the insulin producing cells. There is nothing you can do to speed up, negate, cure or reverse type 1. It doesn't matter how much you exercise or what food choices you make. Type 1 is cruel this way.