If you don't get diabetes from eating too much salt, how DO you get diabetes?

Answer 1

Diabetes is a disease in which blood glucose levels are above normal. Most of the food we eat is turned into glucose, or sugar, for our bodies to use for energy. The pancreas, an organ that lies near the stomach, makes a hormone called insulin to help glucose get into the cells of our bodies. When you have diabetes, your body either doesn't make enough insulin or can't use its own insulin as well as it should. This causes sugar to build up in your blood.

Diabetes can cause serious health complications including heart disease, blindness, kidney failure, and lower-extremity amputations. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States.


What are the symptoms of diabetes?
People who think they might have diabetes must visit a physician for diagnosis. They might have SOME or NONE of the following symptoms:

Frequent urination
Excessive thirst
Unexplained weight loss
Extreme hunger
Sudden vision changes
Tingling or numbness in hands or feet
Feeling very tired much of the time
Very dry skin
Sores that are slow to heal
More infections than usual.
Nausea, vomiting, or stomach pains may accompany some of these symptoms in the abrupt onset of insulin-dependent diabetes, now called type 1 diabetes.




What is the treatment f or diabetes?
Healthy eating, physical activity, and insulin injections are the basic therapies for type 1 diabetes. The amount of insulin taken must be balanced with food intake and daily activities. Blood glucose levels must be closely monitored through frequent blood glucose testing.

Healthy eating, physical activity, and blood glucose testing are the basic therapies for type 2 diabetes. In addition, many people with type 2 diabetes require oral medication, insulin, or both to control their blood glucose levels.

Can diabetes be prevented?
A number of studies have shown that regular physical activity can significantly reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes also appears to be associated with obesity.

To much sat can lead to high blood pressure!!

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

Neither of those two or three myths are correct! Food does NOT cause diabetes! Salt MAY cause high blood pressure and then again may not. Sugar causes only tooth decay. Type 1 diabetes is caused by disease or injury to the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes is hereditary more than anything else. There is no truth to the myth that Type 2 Diabetes is caused by obesity and sofaspudism! I am not even sure it even helps those few people who are obese and sofa spuds to get diabetes when the genetic markers are in place. You just have mroe lifestyle factors to deal with.

Answer 5

Salt doesn't have anything to do with diabetes, and really, sugar doesn't either, at least as far as becoming diabetic. You get diabetes because it's an auto-immune disease in which the body attacks its own pancreas, and the pancreas, in turn, can't produce enough insulin to deal with the sugar you take in (and that isn't just table sugar, but all sugars, to which most of our foods are converted). Other than that, nobody *really* knows why it starts; we only know how to treat it.

Answer 6

There are 2 types of diabetes, type 1 is juvenile which is hereditary, and type 2 which can also be hereditary, but happens later in life. No one knows what causes it, but it is a scary condition. My husband has been a type 1 for over 20 years. And it is a constatn battle with his sugar levels either being too high or too low. Both of which can make him very sick.

Answer 7

It is genetic and is not caused by eating too much salt. Go to a website called WebMD.com and look it up. There is a wealth of knowledge about diabetes.

Answer 8

eating too much salt can cause your blood pressure (hypertension) to raise. Improper eating habits, lack of exercise can contribute to your diabetes, unless you are in a family that has diabetes, so youre more likely to inherit it.

Answer 9

First I beleive you got salt confused with sugar. Second of all scientist are still investigating the mechanism of insulin resistance that causes diabetes.

Answer 10

Too much sugar.
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For those who disapproved of my initial answer, here is a more elaborate one:
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Other than the genes you inherited, there are TWO PRIMARY CAUSES OF DIABETES:

1) a long-term diet that has been high in carbohydrates and
2) nutritional deficiencies.

Your body breaks down carbohydrates into SUGAR (glucose) which then enters your blood stream. The more carbohydrates you eat, the higher your blood SUGAR goes. In response, your body produces INSULIN. Insulin's job is to push the BLOOD SUGAR into the cells.

On the surface of the cells in your body are insulin receptors, which act like little doors that open and close to regulate the inflow of blood sugar.

After many years of consuming a high-carbohydrate diet, your cells have been bombarded with so much insulin that these doors begin to malfunction and shut down.

With less doors open, your body needs to produce even more insulin to push the glucose into the cells. More insulin causes even more doors to close and as this vicious cycle continues, a condition called "INSULIN RESISTANCE" sets in.

The insulin resistance can get so bad that your body CAN NO LONGER PRODUCE ENOUGH INSULIN TO PUSH BLOOD SUGAR INTO THE CELLS. The blood sugar then rises out of control resulting in (type 2) diabetes.

DIABETES IS SIMPY AN EXTREME CASE OF INSULIN RESISTANCE.

What's the Bottom line?

Since type 2 diabetes is really a severe case of insulin resistance, the solution to your condition is to find a way to increase the sensitivity of your cells to insulin and help your body GET THE SUGAR OUT of the blood and into the cells so it can be metabolized and turned into energy.

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OTHER CAUSES (FROM ENCARTA)
1. Autoimmune disease
2. Genetic predisposition
3. insulin-related
4. medicines that increase risk such as
a. hydrocortisone
b, indapamide
c. methylprednisolone

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From:
http://www.sclero.org/medical/symptoms/associated/diabetes/causes.html

"Causes of diabetes includes genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. Risk factors for Type 2 Diabetes include obesity, inactivity, poor diet, age, ethnicity, and pregnancy. "

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