Can eating too much sugar cause diabetes?

Question

Or is this an urban myth

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Answer 1

NO NO NO NO and NO
Diabetes is genetic
Both Type one and Type two diabetes are genetic.

It is NOT repeat NOT caused by eating too much sugar, no matter what some of the morons here have written.
Don't believe them! This is popularly believed, but is totally untrue.
The disease can be made worse by eating sugar or carbohydrate, but certainly not caused that way.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

It IS an urban myth. Type two diabetes is usually genetic, and is more common among obese people. Children rarely get type two diabetes.

Type one diabetes is very uncommon. Only 5-10% of all diabetics have it. I have type one diabetes. Was it caused by eating too much sugar? No. Nobody knows the exact reasoning behind type one diabetes, but it is genetic.

If diabetes is caused by eating too much sugar, then why do skinny people have diabetes, too?

Halle Berry has diabetes. Think she eats a lot of sugar? She's no fatter than most other actresses.

Sometimes, newborn babies are born diabetic. Think they ate too much sugar?

You're an idiot.

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Answer 5

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Foods or drinks DO NOT cause either type of diabetes!! Type 1 is caused by disease or damage to the pancreas!! period! one percent is genetically caused! But in no way is it related to consumption of sugar. Type 2 is caused by 75% genetics!! the other 25% MAY be due to poor choices in diet and exercise, but I highly doubt it. Who knows what will trigger the faulty genetic cell to become diabetes. But it absolutely has nothing to do with eating sweets! ALL plant derived foods have some or a lot of carbohydrates in them! It is much more likely to be the cereals, pastas, breads, other grain products and potatoes and other root veggies to blame for any of the non-genetic diabetes than for sugar to be. Carbohydrates is a fancy way of saying SUGAR! so hit them with "so will carrots and pizza!" And diabetics can have sugar in tea, desserts, that little bit of chocolate, or whatever else they want as long as they plan it into the day and meal!! Other people do not need to worry about eating sweets, chocolates, or drinking sweet tea for that matter! they do not have a problem with sugar! NO! Sugar does NOT cause diabetes of either type!!

Answer 6

It can cause diabetes. But if you still insist on eating too much sugar, be sure to take at least, 10 to 20 minutes walking as the most minimal way of exercise to turn the sugar intake a source of energy.

Answer 7

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Can eating too much sugar cause diabetes?
Or is this an urban myth

Answer 8

Type one diabetes no, as that is a genetic/endocrine disorder where the body does not produce any/sufficient insulin and generally arises in early childhood and can only be controlled by insulin injections.
Type 2 diabetes most definitely! Type 2 diabetes usually develops in later life as a result of a poor diet. The more sugar (white refined*) you put in your body the more insulin the liver has to produce to deal with it,as sugar is essentially toxic to the functions of the body! (sad because it is so yummy!) If you have have had a history of putting loads of sugar in your body everyday and not much history of exercising you may exhaust the insulin making process- what tends to happen is that the body grows 'deaf' to the insulin and more and more has to be produced to cope with the sugar in the blood stream till it fails. Dr's used to only see this type of diabetes in 40year plus people (average onset used to be about 60ish) who had a long history of being overweight. In the last 10years there has been a marked increase in early-onset Type 2 diabetes: kids in there early teens and younger who have been bought up on a diet of sugar and no exercise and became obese early in their lives. So YES! Stick to no more than a small choc bar a day and one can of normal soda, do exercise and you should be fine!

*Sugars low on the Glycemic Index- natural fruit sugar/fructose are much safer as have far less of an impact on blood sugar levels.

Answer 9

Eating too much sugar can cause obesity which can contribute to diabetes. So indirectly yes it can, must also take in to consideration family history of diabetes and other medical factors.

Answer 10

I should say not. In a healthy individual without genetic predisposition to diabetes, it wouldn't be the cause. In an individual with genetic predisposition, environmental factors, and poor lifestyle choices, then, eating lots of sugar might trigger the dysregulation of glucose metabolsim -- it may be due to impaired insulin secretion of the beta cella of the pancreas, to decreased glucose utilization of the cells of the body, or to increased glucose production by the liver -- as a result of insulin resistance. This is the pathophysiology of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
In Type 1 DM, it develops as a result of genetic, environmental and immunologic factors that destroy the pancreatic beta cells. Beta cell mass declines as a result of an autoimmune process thought to be triggered by an infectious or environmental stimulus.
What I'm trying to say is that eating too much sugar does not cause diabetes, but it might the trigger in the onset of diabetes in susceptible individuals.