can eating too much sugar make me a diabetic? can any diet affect my from becoming diabetic?
But I’m pretty sure that eating sugar does not “cause” diabetes. I don’t think the medical community actually knows what causes it, but they think it might be diet-related.
(I assume you mean diabetes mellitus, and not diabetes insipidus, which is a totally different disease.)
IAAD.
Current medical theory on what causes diabetes is that people with a family history of the disease are predisposed towards getting another disease, the bugs of which attach themselves to the outlet ports on the surface of the pancreas which emit insulin. The body creates a boatload of white blood cells and tells them, “go out and kill these viruses; they look like this and they’re attached to these things.” The cells go out, kill the free-floating viruses, kill the viruses that have attached to the pancreas, and, just to make sure, kill all the remaining outlet ports on the pancreas, so your body can’t emit insulin any more. In other words, my immune system has destroyed my ability to produce insulin (which was a fatal problem until we figured out how to create insulin) in an attempt to kill of a virus which had no symptoms and wouldn’t have hurt me anyway.
So much for the quasi-technical way that people become diabetic.
The other way of looking at it is like this: Again, with the family history, people tend to become insulin-dependent diabetics if they are under 20 or non-insulin-dependent over 50 and, in either case, have been seriously overweight for half their lives.
I was 33 years old and had been about 20 lbs. overweight for five years. Boy, was my doctor pissed.
So, in answer to your query, no, sugar alone can’t make you diabetic. Having a family history of it and getting way overweight will increase your chances drastically. If you find that you get sleepy after eating sugary things, rather than getting hyper, get thee to a doctor. If you find that you’re peeing hourly, ditto.
Eating a healthy diet, where each meal has about 1/2 fruits and vegetables, 1/4 carbohydrates, and 1/4 meat/cheese/proteiny things, will cut down your chances of developing diabetes. Exercise is your friend, too.
However, I work on a research floor with people that do diabetes research, so - upon consultation…
If you have a pre-disposition to Type II Diabetes then eating alot of sugar can certainly cause the disease to manifest. If you have a pre-disposition to Type II Diabetes then healthy diet and exercise and delay or prevent the onset of the disease.
If you do NOT have a pre-disposition, eating sugar won’t do much of anything other than make you obese - if you’re not pre-disposed, you probably can’t get the disease. However, it’s difficult to tell if you’re pre-disposed, because, of course, there are multiple factors involved.
Al.
what you are describing are the actions of the killer cells. THis is one of the 1st lines of defense. Basically these cells just roam around and if they find an infected cell they kill it to stop the spread of the virus. Eventially (and hopefully) they body will produce the correct antibody which will bind with the actual virus and ‘deactivate’ it.