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no matter what they consume. I thought I asked this before but don't find my post where I thought I had.
I ate so much sugars/carbs all my life before I started looking and watching B.S. and A1C labs and now have cut so much out as far as the sugars. Wondering why issues didn't crop up in my life years ago? Comments please.
Just because someone may eat a lot of sweets/sugar it does not mean they are necessarily going to get T2 diabetes or that it will specifically cause diabetes. There are other factors involved. Some people are predisposed to diabetes (hereditary) and some people get it due to their diet and/or weight issues. So, if eating a lot of sweets causes one to put on excess weight then they surely could develop diabetes due to the weight issues. But one could get diabetes due to excess weight without ever eating many sweets at all.
T1 diabetes on the other hand is not caused by anything to do with what one eats or their weight at all. T1 is an autoimmune condition.
It isn't that simple. There are other aspects to consider.
For example, my husband has gobbled up carbs every day of his life, yet he doesn't have diabetes...there is no diabetes in his family. There are many obese people who never become type 2 diabetics. There are thin people, like me, who do become type 2 diabetics. It's not all diet.
Yes, my parents and all the family ate mega sugars/carbs and I don't ever recall diabetes in the families. Maybe they had T2 and didn't know. Dad drank alcohol all his life too, died at close to 96.
no matter what they consume. I thought I asked this before but don't find my post where I thought I had.
I ate so much sugars/carbs all my life before I started looking and watching B.S. and A1C labs and now have cut so much out as far as the sugars. Wondering why issues didn't crop up in my life years ago? Comments please.
In those cases, I would say your genes played a huge/significant role. Basically, whatever amount of sugar/starches you consumed your body was able to keep your blood/sugar level in check or your body was just doing what it was supposed to do. When your body doesn't do what it's supposed to do, that's when the problemos occur.
Just think about correlation and causation, is every single skinny person free from getting Type II diabetes, nope, is every single overweight person going to get Type II diabetes, nope. Does your chances significantly increase in getting Type II diabetes if you're overweight, yes, but it's not an absolute. Obviously, one would think that the human body wasn't made to be 200, 225, 250, 275, 300+ pounds, depending on your height of course!
Right now there's an estimated 19,000-20,000 genes in the human genome, scientists are still trying to figure out what they all do and how they interact/influence with one another. It will probably take many generations if ever to figure it all out.
Think about it this way, the human body is a very complex, yet elegant system/organism, with many mysteries still waiting to be discovered!
I have diabetes on both sides of the family and my doctor nicely told me years ago that it wasn't a matter of IF I got diabetes as much as when. Despite losing 20 pounds and having a good BMI, I am now pre-diabetic. My A1C has actually risen slightly since losing the weight after gallbladder surgery. I eat little to no sugar except what's found naturally in fruit and rarely put a carb in my mouth so it's definitely genetic to a certain point. I also have higher than normal cholesterol and my blood pressure at last visit was 140/100. Now it's not quite that high when I take it at home but HBP also runs in my family.
I know a guy who is 360 pounds, eats nothing but garbage every day and he has no problem with blood pressure or diabetes.
I never ate a lot of sweets growing up, I eat healthy carbs, and I am heading towards Type 2. I am even more careful of what I eat now because of it, but even with fasting my blood sugar is too high.
Sometimes you just get stuff for no known reason. /shrug
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Carbs are really not the reason for Diabetes 2, it's the fats, there are quite a few people getting cured of it by following a whole foods plant based diet. Here's a link for info about it: It
Carbs are really not the reason for Diabetes 2, it's the fats, there are quite a few people getting cured of it by following a whole foods plant based diet. Here's a link for info about it: It
As usual, I spout off that I've been vegetarian all my life, with very little dairy, and yet I have type 2.
No, I'm not obese.
My point being, using my freak-of-nature self as an example, (but I'm not the only one) I don't think carbs or fats is the absolute answer. There is more to diabetes than diet.
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