Does diabetes complications come from plainly just eating to much or just the sugar itself?
Jun 09, 2009 | Complications of Diabetes
like if you eat a lot does that make diabetes worse? what happened if you didn’t eat alot and just ate sugar? would that make it worse?
my question is is diabetes cause from overeating too many carbs, or just the quick desovling sugar itself?
AND SMART ANSWERS! no opinions please
complications come from poor control. like, eating and not bolusing, or not remembering to take insulin or guessing at carb intake.
August 31st, 2009 at 2:09 pm
Yes, unless you are eating EXACTLY right for a diabetic.
Low carbs and low sugar.
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August 31st, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Both. As you know, diabetes is a disease where the body is unable to regulate the blood glucose level. There are 2 types of diabetes, juvenile and adult diabetes. Juvenile diabetes is hereditary and is an autoimmune disease. There isn’t much you can do to prevent juvenile diabetes. However, in adult diabetes, it is not hereditary. Instead, it is caused predominantly by obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Insulin, a human hormone, is responsible for decreasing the blood glucose levels. Obesity, the accumulation of large amounts of fat cells, decreases the effectiveness of insulin. As a result, the blood glucose levels rises above normal. For adult diabetics, eating large amount of foods, leading to obesity, makes matter worse in the long run. For an adult diabetic to go on a sugar binge will have a more immediate effect. Their blood glucose levels will rise rapidly. They will become incoherent and suffer a host of physical ailments. At worst, they may go in to diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) – though this is highly unlikely.
Complex carbohydrates are O.K. because they take time to digest and slowly increase the blood glucose level. However, simple sugars (e.g. glucose, fructose,…) are readily absorbed through the digestive tract and go straight in to the bloodstream, thereby, causing a rapid rise in blood glucose levels.
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August 31st, 2009 at 3:26 pm
complications come from poor control. like, eating and not bolusing, or not remembering to take insulin or guessing at carb intake.
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August 31st, 2009 at 4:06 pm
In either form of diabetes, the body just doesn’t make use of the carbohydrates due either to lack of insulin or to insulin resistance of the muscles.
Carbohydrates (sugar) feeds the muscles. If the muscles don’t use the carb, it floats in the blood stream. The body starves in spite of eating everything.
Over eating of carbohydrates or just sugar does NOT cause either form of diabetes, but can make it a whole bunch worse as the sugar becomes much too thick, not allowing the red blood cells to do what they are supposed to do.
Type 1 diabetes is caused by disease or injury to the pancreas!! It kills the pancreas. Insulin injections are the only treatment for type 1 along with watching not to eat too much and to exercise.
Type 2 is partially genetic, and partially lifestyle. But it is not caused by over eating of carbs either. It is made worse by eating carbs and not exercising.
I have always been a meat and salad eater! These are supposed to be low carb foods! I have always been very active. I have type 2 diabetes anyway!! Sometimes it is only the luck of the draw in genetics!!!
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August 31st, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Diabetes is that your body is not able to regulate your own insuline, produced by your body. Not the glucose level.
So if you don’t follow a diet and excercise routine that will make your sugar level go higher.
If you don’t eat at all that will make it higher because your body need the balance.You need to watch your carbs infusion and do excercise.
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I work for Accu-Check the people that makes glucose meters, in Customer Care.