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You dont get diabetes from eating "too many sweets". If you have a disposition to type 2 diabetes, and you eat too many sweets, then sure the symptoms are more

You dont get diabetes from eating "too many sweets". If you have a disposition to type 2 diabetes, and you eat too many sweets, then sure the symptoms are more likely to show sooner. A quit google, shows that ~40% of americans are obese, and around 9% of americans have type 2 diabetes. If eating poorly lead to diabetes (and didnt just expose the symptoms) then those numbers would be much closer.

nradov 7y ago
More than a third of American adults have prediabetes. The A1c dividing line between prediabetes and full Type 2 diabetes is essentially arbitrary. Eating too many sweets is absolutely a proven risk factor. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html
everfree 7y ago
> You dont get diabetes from eating "too many sweets". If you have a disposition to type 2 diabetes, and you eat too many sweets, then sure the symptoms are more likely to show sooner. I don't think this is really a useful distinction. If you eat a lot of sugar and "get diabetes", i.e. it becomes clinically significant, then it would be just as correct to blame your sugar intake as to blame your genetics. It's quite known that sugar intake is strongly correlated with diabetes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584048/
- sithlord 7y ago
  I dont think anyone is arguing that sugar intake isn't correlated with type 2 diabetes surfacing. But, that same person would start showing eventually regardless, just may not be as soon. People with type 2 diabetes, genetically, have trouble removing glucose from cells, this is a fact, eating too much sugar, means that the cells become full sooner, and the body shows that it can't deal with it.
  - gowld 7y ago
    When it shows matters a lot. I hope my diabetes shows after I die.

nradov 7y ago

More than a third of American adults have prediabetes. The A1c dividing line between prediabetes and full Type 2 diabetes is essentially arbitrary. Eating too many sweets is absolutely a proven risk factor. https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/prediabetes.html

everfree 7y ago

> You dont get diabetes from eating "too many sweets". If you have a disposition to type 2 diabetes, and you eat too many sweets, then sure the symptoms are more likely to show sooner. I don't think this is really a useful distinction. If you eat a lot of sugar and "get diabetes", i.e. it becomes clinically significant, then it would be just as correct to blame your sugar intake as to blame your genetics. It's quite known that sugar intake is strongly correlated with diabetes: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3584048/

sithlord 7y ago
I dont think anyone is arguing that sugar intake isn't correlated with type 2 diabetes surfacing. But, that same person would start showing eventually regardless, just may not be as soon. People with type 2 diabetes, genetically, have trouble removing glucose from cells, this is a fact, eating too much sugar, means that the cells become full sooner, and the body shows that it can't deal with it.
- gowld 7y ago
  When it shows matters a lot. I hope my diabetes shows after I die.