First of all I can say that it’s a good thing that you decided to write here and that you are interested in such a thing, it is also a good thing that you want to find out about this not only to prove your friend something but because this info might save you from getting diabetes, I appreciate people who aren’t ignorant. The second thing is that you can find a lot of myths about this thing in internet. I would like to provide you some basical information about this in order to make you and your friend understand what is the biggest mistake. I’m sorry but you’re both wrong. First of all diabetes is not caused just because you eat too much sugar, you can have diabetes because you don’t eat the right food, and in this case you are more right than your friend. The other thing you have to understand that there are different types of diabetes and that can appear by different situations. In some cases is something that was developed by itself and can happen even if it’s a teenager or just a kid, it’s like a body reaction to sugar and some problems with insulin. The second thing is that what you asked about. The diabetes that can appear because of an eating disorder or a wrong eating habit. Usually in this type of diabetes are included those people that are obese, and when we speak about this type of people we can’t say that sugar is the only indicator that influenced the envelopment of the disease. In fact eating bag fats and eating always fast food can create the same thing. Have you ever asked yourself why do fat people can’t donate blood? They are obese and they are very likely to have diabetes, they are have a high risk of suffering from diabetes in near future even though, they don’t suffer from it currently. Even if an obese person is feeling ok and healthy no body would want to risk.
That’s why you and your friend have to understand that sugar is not the only thing that influences the development of the disease. Once a person is eating for a very long time food with a high consistence of fat (bad fat) and if he is becoming obese this can be a risk for his health because it can provide in future diabetes, because the insulin resistance is increased in the presence of fat.
Diabetes can be developed also if you have some pancreatic problems, you can have a good diet all your entire life but if there is something wrong with your pancreas, like for example because you consumed too much drugs that influenced your pancreas or you’re a person that was born with pancreas issues, then in this case this have nothing to do with the amount of sugar that you consumed, it’s just a toxic reaction that some cells received while that person consumed some drugs and this reaction increased the sugar consistence in his blood therefore - diabetes. The only way through what you can cause yourself a diabetes development is to increase the intake of fat, sugar, to increase the caloric intake and to eat unhealthy food. What I mean by unhealthy food? It’s not just fast food, pizza and sodas, unhealthy food is everything that is linked with refined carbohydrates, refined sugar that nowadays you can find everywhere and bad fat. Don’t forget that the only thing today that doesn’t have sugar is water, and if you eat a big amount of pasta or bread it doesn’t matter that you don’t have chances to have diabetes.
The only thing to do is to have a good balanced diet and to eat more homemade food, that is rich in vegetables, fruits and good fats (omega 3).
