Diabetes comes in two flavors: Type 1 (often called childhood diabetes) and Type 2 (adult diabetes). Type 1 happens when you’re young and smarter people than me can tell you why it happens.
Type 2 diabetes happens when you have a really bad diet (including one with a lot of refined sugar, white bread, sodas, potatoes). Eating those types of foods all the time makes your pancreas create a lot of insulin (what helps process sugar). After a certain point, your body stops using insulin very well. So – you can’t use insulin to process sugar, so sugar floats around in your blood and does all sorts of nasty things. it’s that insulin-resistance that is called diabetes.
So – it is NOT a myth. Eating a lot of sugar has a very good likelihood of causing diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is insensitivity to insulin. Now why would someone be insensitive to their own insulin? People who eat too much (of carbs especially, but not only) and don’t get enough exercise are constantly having to produce insulin to deal with all the sugar they are eating. The system of insulin receptivity wears out. The body gets tired of constantly processing sugars. The insulin is constantly needed to clear the sugar in their blood and store the energy, as fat ultimately.
So, obesity is a good predictor of type 2 diabetes. Eating candy bars? Maybe, unless you are burning thousands of calories daily by triathlons, which some people are doing.
Type 1 is caused by an autoimmune attack on the pancreas. The person makes little or no insulin. Type 1 is unconnected to food.
Type 2 is a metabolic disease. The person does not make enough insulin, or the body does not respond to insulin. It is linked with weight but is not caused by being overweight. Type 2 is strongly genetic.
So, excessive sugar consumption does not cause diabetes.
If you do not have diabetes genes, you can have all the sugar you want and never become diabetic.
But if you do have diabetes genes, you can completely abstain from sugar and you could still develop (Type 2) diabetes.
Yes, absolutely! Well this is at least the cause of Type 2 Diabetes which is largely induced by lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits. Type 1 Diabetes (which my brother was diagnosed with as an athletic 17 year old) is thought to be auto-immune caused by a preceding viral infection. We have never had a case of Diabetes in our entire family history so everyone should be careful not to overindulge at all.
However not only sugar is to blame, even though it is both addictive and has a very negative impact on the body in excess. General overeating and eventually becoming overweight and especially obese is the villain in the story.
Type 2 Diabetes: Usually diagnosed in middle age, although there are always exceptions. Commonly known as “insulin resistance” … Years of abusing the body with high calorie junk food with resulting in raised cholesterol, hypertension and high blood insulin levels = Metabolic Syndrome which unchecked develops into Diabetes type 2 where blood glucose levels are permanently above the normal maximum (120mg or 6mm/l)
You have to look deeper into the sugar issue though – if you personally have constant sugar cravings you must look into what that could be sourced from. If you have other symptoms such as:
*constant lethargy/lack of energy
*migraines
*depression
*you often get muscle cramps
*burning soles of your feet ie peripheral neuropathy (which can be Diabetes too)
*inability to think clearly or concentrate
*hyperactivity
*acne
*Athlete’s foot
*poor memory…etc
If you have one or more of these persistently you may be living with Candida Albicans which feeds on sugar and thus makes the sufferer constantly crave sugar – most often in abnormal amounts. Candida is a yeast imbalance in the gut ecosystem which is a growing but still silent pandemic affecting both women and men causing these and more serious symptoms (like depression). We had one case where a female patient had been suffering for 30 years from Candida and its effects. It was so bad that her body would wake her up around 3am every night and she would drink 2 liters of fruit juice By the time she came to us she had almost given up on finding a treatment that would work after firstly some doctors telling her that her condition did not exist and giving her anti-depressants (which worsen Candida like antibiotics do too) then trying products which claim to be healthy but contain fructose (fruit sugar) and sugar alcohols like malitol and sorbitol. The only way to clear the Candida overgrowth is to starve it of sugar before real damage can set in.
Lastly, your question pertaining to if you can lose, or cure Diabetes is fairly simple. For Type 1 Diabetes no cure has been found yet, although there are products on the market which can help to manage the condition alongside being strict with taking insulin before meals and keeping a healthy balance of blood glucose levels.
Fortunately, for Diabetes Type 2, there have been headlines just this week out of Newcastle University that this condition may be reversed through correct nutrition and a carefully managed temporary 600 calorie a day diet under strict supervision of a health-care professional.
If you are worried about whether or not you have Pre-Diabetes or Diabetes type 1/2 or Candida Albicans, see your GP or go to your nearest clinic or hospital. A simple blood test will tell you straight away and you can get advice from there of how to manage it best in order to maintain optimum health.
Above all, avoid sugar as much as possible.If in any doubt, just Research “reasons to avoid sugar”. If you need your coffee or tea only use Acesulfame-K sweeteners which contain NO aspartame/saccharine/fructose/malitol/sorbitol/xylitol/dextrose/sucrose – any ingredient containing -ose/ol.
I recommend reading “Diabetes and You: A Comprehensive, Holistic Approach.” It tells you everything about diabetes, including physiological causes of ALL types of diabetes . Hope this helps.
Type 2 diabetes is not caused by eating a lot of sugar. I am a Type 2 and I had dessert a couple times a year, mainly on holidays. I never kept sweets in the house. I didn’t have a lot of soda, either. I primarily enjoyed salty and savory foods, like chips.
Practically everyone in my family, on both sides, is Type 2. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, my own mother – lots of diabetics. In fact, Type 2 diabetes is a HIGHLY genetic disease, more genetic than Type 1 diabetes.
Because diabetes means high blood sugar, I think some people incorrectly assume that it’s a result of sugar. Or that because many Type 2s are overweight at diagnosis that a poor diet, one high in sugar, caused it. That’s not true at all. First, many scientists now believe that obesity in diabetics is actually the result of a metabolic disorder – one that causes insulin resistance and several other problems. When weight gain occurs from the metabolic disorder, IR gets worse, which leads to more weight gain. The insulin resistance then becomes very severe, blood sugar creeps up, and then diabetes is present. Second, most fat people in the world do not have diabetes. If obesity really caused it, we’d expect to find that many more people in this country would be diabetic, but they’re not. Sadly, many do not understand that correlation, even a strong correlation, does NOT equal causation.
You can’t ‘get rid of’ diabetes, unfortunately. You can catch diabetes early enough to manage it well with diet and exercise, but if you stop dieting, blood sugar will go up. Also, diabetes is progressive, and while many people slow down the progress by low carbing, exercising, and improving insulin resistance, the reality is that that may not be enough to halt the progress entirely. Around a quarter of Type 2s are on insulin and it’s not because they failed or anything so simple. Some Type 2s have lost a lot of pancreatic function. Like a Type 1, they are insulin deficient, and need injectable insulin to maintain blood sugar.
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Diabetes comes in two flavors: Type 1 (often called childhood diabetes) and Type 2 (adult diabetes). Type 1 happens when you’re young and smarter people than me can tell you why it happens.
Type 2 diabetes happens when you have a really bad diet (including one with a lot of refined sugar, white bread, sodas, potatoes). Eating those types of foods all the time makes your pancreas create a lot of insulin (what helps process sugar). After a certain point, your body stops using insulin very well. So – you can’t use insulin to process sugar, so sugar floats around in your blood and does all sorts of nasty things. it’s that insulin-resistance that is called diabetes.
So – it is NOT a myth. Eating a lot of sugar has a very good likelihood of causing diabetes.
Sort of a myth, not really.
Type 2 diabetes is insensitivity to insulin. Now why would someone be insensitive to their own insulin? People who eat too much (of carbs especially, but not only) and don’t get enough exercise are constantly having to produce insulin to deal with all the sugar they are eating. The system of insulin receptivity wears out. The body gets tired of constantly processing sugars. The insulin is constantly needed to clear the sugar in their blood and store the energy, as fat ultimately.
So, obesity is a good predictor of type 2 diabetes. Eating candy bars? Maybe, unless you are burning thousands of calories daily by triathlons, which some people are doing.
There are two main types of diabetes.
Type 1 is caused by an autoimmune attack on the pancreas. The person makes little or no insulin. Type 1 is unconnected to food.
Type 2 is a metabolic disease. The person does not make enough insulin, or the body does not respond to insulin. It is linked with weight but is not caused by being overweight. Type 2 is strongly genetic.
So, excessive sugar consumption does not cause diabetes.
If you do not have diabetes genes, you can have all the sugar you want and never become diabetic.
But if you do have diabetes genes, you can completely abstain from sugar and you could still develop (Type 2) diabetes.
Yes, absolutely! Well this is at least the cause of Type 2 Diabetes which is largely induced by lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits. Type 1 Diabetes (which my brother was diagnosed with as an athletic 17 year old) is thought to be auto-immune caused by a preceding viral infection. We have never had a case of Diabetes in our entire family history so everyone should be careful not to overindulge at all.
However not only sugar is to blame, even though it is both addictive and has a very negative impact on the body in excess. General overeating and eventually becoming overweight and especially obese is the villain in the story.
Type 2 Diabetes: Usually diagnosed in middle age, although there are always exceptions. Commonly known as “insulin resistance” … Years of abusing the body with high calorie junk food with resulting in raised cholesterol, hypertension and high blood insulin levels = Metabolic Syndrome which unchecked develops into Diabetes type 2 where blood glucose levels are permanently above the normal maximum (120mg or 6mm/l)
You have to look deeper into the sugar issue though – if you personally have constant sugar cravings you must look into what that could be sourced from. If you have other symptoms such as:
*constant lethargy/lack of energy
*migraines
*depression
*you often get muscle cramps
*burning soles of your feet ie peripheral neuropathy (which can be Diabetes too)
*inability to think clearly or concentrate
*hyperactivity
*acne
*Athlete’s foot
*poor memory…etc
If you have one or more of these persistently you may be living with Candida Albicans which feeds on sugar and thus makes the sufferer constantly crave sugar – most often in abnormal amounts. Candida is a yeast imbalance in the gut ecosystem which is a growing but still silent pandemic affecting both women and men causing these and more serious symptoms (like depression). We had one case where a female patient had been suffering for 30 years from Candida and its effects. It was so bad that her body would wake her up around 3am every night and she would drink 2 liters of fruit juice By the time she came to us she had almost given up on finding a treatment that would work after firstly some doctors telling her that her condition did not exist and giving her anti-depressants (which worsen Candida like antibiotics do too) then trying products which claim to be healthy but contain fructose (fruit sugar) and sugar alcohols like malitol and sorbitol. The only way to clear the Candida overgrowth is to starve it of sugar before real damage can set in.
Lastly, your question pertaining to if you can lose, or cure Diabetes is fairly simple. For Type 1 Diabetes no cure has been found yet, although there are products on the market which can help to manage the condition alongside being strict with taking insulin before meals and keeping a healthy balance of blood glucose levels.
Fortunately, for Diabetes Type 2, there have been headlines just this week out of Newcastle University that this condition may be reversed through correct nutrition and a carefully managed temporary 600 calorie a day diet under strict supervision of a health-care professional.
If you are worried about whether or not you have Pre-Diabetes or Diabetes type 1/2 or Candida Albicans, see your GP or go to your nearest clinic or hospital. A simple blood test will tell you straight away and you can get advice from there of how to manage it best in order to maintain optimum health.
Above all, avoid sugar as much as possible.If in any doubt, just Research “reasons to avoid sugar”. If you need your coffee or tea only use Acesulfame-K sweeteners which contain NO aspartame/saccharine/fructose/malitol/sorbitol/xylitol/dextrose/sucrose – any ingredient containing -ose/ol.
Good luck and take care!
I recommend reading “Diabetes and You: A Comprehensive, Holistic Approach.” It tells you everything about diabetes, including physiological causes of ALL types of diabetes . Hope this helps.
Type 2 diabetes is not caused by eating a lot of sugar. I am a Type 2 and I had dessert a couple times a year, mainly on holidays. I never kept sweets in the house. I didn’t have a lot of soda, either. I primarily enjoyed salty and savory foods, like chips.
Practically everyone in my family, on both sides, is Type 2. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, my own mother – lots of diabetics. In fact, Type 2 diabetes is a HIGHLY genetic disease, more genetic than Type 1 diabetes.
Because diabetes means high blood sugar, I think some people incorrectly assume that it’s a result of sugar. Or that because many Type 2s are overweight at diagnosis that a poor diet, one high in sugar, caused it. That’s not true at all. First, many scientists now believe that obesity in diabetics is actually the result of a metabolic disorder – one that causes insulin resistance and several other problems. When weight gain occurs from the metabolic disorder, IR gets worse, which leads to more weight gain. The insulin resistance then becomes very severe, blood sugar creeps up, and then diabetes is present. Second, most fat people in the world do not have diabetes. If obesity really caused it, we’d expect to find that many more people in this country would be diabetic, but they’re not. Sadly, many do not understand that correlation, even a strong correlation, does NOT equal causation.
You can’t ‘get rid of’ diabetes, unfortunately. You can catch diabetes early enough to manage it well with diet and exercise, but if you stop dieting, blood sugar will go up. Also, diabetes is progressive, and while many people slow down the progress by low carbing, exercising, and improving insulin resistance, the reality is that that may not be enough to halt the progress entirely. Around a quarter of Type 2s are on insulin and it’s not because they failed or anything so simple. Some Type 2s have lost a lot of pancreatic function. Like a Type 1, they are insulin deficient, and need injectable insulin to maintain blood sugar.
They don’t know for sure what causes diabetes, and there isn’t any way to lose diabetes if you have it.