Causes of Diabetes

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if so, what does cause it? and can you lose it if you get it?

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Diabetes can cause a sugar coating that smothers body’s immune defences, researchers find
Researchers have found that unhealthy glucose levels in patients with diabetes can cause significantly more problems for the body than just the well-known symptoms of the disease. The raised glucose can also form what can be described as a sugar coating that can effectively smother the mechanisms our bodies use to detect and fight bacterial and fungal infections.

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I like drinking sweet tea and coffee, and I have heard people say drinking too much sugar can lead to diabetes. Yet, some other people say that diabetes are caused by our bad internal organ (liver, pancreas, kidney, or something) and not by the amount of sugar we consume. Please throw me some light.

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Ive been checking on my blood sugar levels because i have a history in my family and because im over weight,i also have been getting these weird symptoms like; fatigue,shaky hands,some mood swings,and my eyes be feeling weird but not blurry nor out of focus they feel like they want to sink in,but i have been checking my sugar for the past week and its always in normal range,can someone give me good advise?

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I have low blood sugar but recently I looked up Symptoms of Diabetes and I have:
Blurry Vision
Fatigue
Irritation
Increase hunger
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Even if I don’t have diabetes, how does it explain my blurry vision? Can low blood sugar lead to diabetes?

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I used to believe that. My mother was told by a doctor that the candy she ate caused her diabetes, while I was still in my early teens. At that point, I quit putting sugar on my cereal, avoided sweets, and learned to like unsweetened foods. Well, guess what…. 35 years later, I find out I’m diabetic. No, folks… it’s not sugar. It’s genetic predisposition, poor diet, poor weight management, and sedentary lifestyle (lack of exercise). Since adopting a rather comprehensive lifestyle change, I’ve found that managing your blood sugar is not that difficult if you’re willing to make a few easy changes in your routine. I managed a 5.8 on my hemoglobin A1C test last month. Check out my diabetes information webpage for details: http://www.geocities.com/seabulls69/Type_II_Diabetes.html
So far, one… maybe two, are getting it. The rest need to do more homework. Hint: there’s a link on my webpage with big, bold letters that says: “SUGAR DOES NOT CAUSE DIABETES”… click it, read it, then get back to me before you post your opinion. Thanks.
We continue to get uninformed answers. Darn. Eric K is the most recent culprit. He says I’m wrong (despite my compelling evidence) and then cites a source that makes absolutely no mention of sugar… only obesity. Come on people. Eric…. you need to get an email so we can talk.
Anita points out that I left out the cause of type 1. Still ain’t sugar, though. In the case of type 1, as far as I can tell, it’s the body’s immune system attacking the islets in the pancreas. As to what triggers the immune reaction, it apparently has to do with a childhood disease and/or the ingestion of cow’s milk (which has proteins similar to those in the pancreas thereby fooling the body’s immune system and causing it to attack the cells in the pancreas). There doesn’t seem to be much certainty on this issue. If there were, I’m sure a cure would be just around the corner. Thanks, Anita, for pointing out my selfish oversight.
George D… wtf?

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Soda is full of sugar.

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This is an excerpt from a letter by Richard Moore, MD, PhD dated August 31, 2009. The Treatment of Diabetes is based upon the idea that the main role of insulin in the body is to lower blood sugar (glucose) levels. Indeed, blood sugar levels rise in diabetes and thus sugar spills over into the urine. Hence the name diabetes mellitus or sweet urine. But the idea that insulins main action is to lower blood glucose turns out to be a historical accident. Basic research done between 1958 and 1963 clearly demonstrates that the main action of insulin is to stimulate the sodium-potassium pump and to reduce the acid inside the bodys cells. A study by Dr. Ken Zierler at Johns Hopkins and also others by my group clearly demonstrated this. Work done by a basic scientist at the University of Illinois also indicated that the high blood glucose in diabetes is not the cause of the pathology. Recently, other investigators at Johns Hopkins have shown that potassium deficiency can cause diabetes. Both Dr. Zierler, the scientist at the University of Illinois, and myself made repeated attempts to inform the American Diabetes Association about this, but in every case, they refused to listen to us. But the glucose dogma was (and is) so strong that almost everyone just knew that tighter control of blood glucose levels would solve the remaining problems to which diabetics are prone. So the NIH conducted the ACCORD study in which the blood glucose in each of 10000 diabetics was lowered to normal …

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Type 1 diabetes can be inherited if both parents have the factor that causes the diabetes, but type 2 diabetes is generally more influenced by lifestyle. Avoid high-fat and high-calorie diets to prevent type 2 diabetes with advice from a family nurse practitioner in this free video on diabetes.

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