How does type 2 diabetes result from an unheathy diet?
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When you eat alot of sweets, potatoes, rice, pasta, and pizza, your carbohydrates is very high and you are suseptible to diabetes 2. I have it. I had to readjust my diet according to my disease. Karen H
November 7th, 2009 at 10:36 am
It doesn’t. Food does NOT cause diabetes. In many cases it is genetic, but it is ALWAYS a problem with the pancreas and how your body uses insulin. Being overweight does not cause diabetes, but having diabetes can cause weight gain….or loss. Eating too much sugar, too many carbs, or not being active is NOT the cause of diabetes. There are going to be those that tell you differently, but they don’t know the facts. Many people that have type 1 actually believe that type 2 is caused by food and being over weight. It’s just because that’s what someone else told them. According to new studies done this year, (and there have been so many) 62% of type 2 diabetics are not or ever have been overweight. Undiagnosed type 2 diabetes can cause severe weight loss, just as in type 1, but in some people it can cause weight gain. (this is usually corrected when they start on medication) Many, many people have excellent diets, and are very athletic, and end up developing type 2. It is not the food, it is the pancreas. Many people with type 2 start out as being insulin resistant. This is when the pancreas is making a lot of insulin, but the body does not use it correctly. In some, the pancreas is actually making too much insulin….but it is not because of anything the person ate, or did. (or did not do) Some type 2 diabetics can actually control their disease by diet and exercise. Most have to take oral medications (89%) Those that use diet and exercise to control their diabetes usually end up having to take medications later in life, simply because diabetes is a progressive disease. Some type 2’s end up having to take insulin, not because they didn’t take care of themselves, but it is how their disease has progressed, and because their pancreas may have almost completely stopped producing insulin. A heathy diet and daily exercise may help to DELAY the onset of type 2 diabetes, but it will not prevent it…there is no way to prevent it or cure it. (other than pancreas transplant) And those that tell you type 2 can be cured by gastric bypass surgery are wrong….they haven’t gotten all the facts. Gastric bypass (which is only given to those that are very obese) helps these people get rid of excess weight which was one of the reasons their diabetes was so out of control….it is just another method where some can finally acheive good control of their disease. It does NOT actually cure it.
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diabetic 17 years
Dr…Nutritionist
Lots of diabetic ed classes
November 7th, 2009 at 11:14 am
Type 2 diabetes is often the result of obesity, and obesity is the result of eating all the wrong foods, so yes, it can be the end result of an unhealthy diet.
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http://www.diabetesandrelatedhealthissues.com
November 7th, 2009 at 11:27 am
When you eat alot of sweets, potatoes, rice, pasta, and pizza, your carbohydrates is very high and you are suseptible to diabetes 2. I have it. I had to readjust my diet according to my disease. Karen H
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November 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
It might be your school homework, but unless you are in medical school, chances are your teacher and textbooks are not up with current research (school curricula, especially secondary education, are often five to ten years behind current knowledge).
Schools push agendas (don’t believe that? you should really research the role of schools in any society), and one of the current agendas is to reduce obesity among children by increasing their physical activity and making healthier food choices (which is ironic, since schools were serving high fat, high sugar meals and snacks and reducing or illiminating recess and PE long before fast foods and video games became "the problem").
Food alone does NOT cause either type of diabetes. Millions of people grew up eating "unhealthy diets" and did not develop diabetes as a result. Not all of them developed heart disease, either. Millions who smoke do not develop lung disease, but just as many who never smoked do. And no, it’s not from secnd hand smoke either.
Obesity does NOT cause diabetes. It is correlatated with type 2, but only because obesity is common in at least half the paitent group. Otherwise it would not show any correlation.
Correlation of diabetes with obesity is NOT the same as cause. You must also account for other factors, such as
- genetics ( this is especially true in some ethnic groups where weight gain was an evolutionary advantage),
- other health problems (such as those affecting endocrine systems of the body – PCOS, for example is correlated with both obesity and insulin resistance, but one does not necessarily develop both), thyroid and pituitary disorders,
- some birth defects and types of mental retardation also correlate with obesity but does not necessarily correlate to diabetes
- certain medications can result in diabetes (several psychiatric medications have brought this side affect to light recently),
- time of life (the body changes as it ages – adolescence, middle and old age all have their characteristic health risks and hormonal changes are just one example),
- severe illness or injury can also result in the development of chronic conditions, including diabetes and heart disease
- autoimmune response (there are several studies currently investigating the possibility that some cases of diabetes may be the result of viral infection (particularly the coxsackie class of virus) because of the number of diabetics with those antibodies that were revealed in previous studies)
If lifestyle was the only cause or cure of diabetes, then ALL people lacking the ideal diet and exercise would be type 2 diabetics. They aren’t. All people striving for the ideal lifestyle should never develop diabetes, or heart disease and cancer, either, but many do.
And before you stereotype diabetes and heart disease with being poor, you should know that not all low income people develop those conditions, and many wealthy people do. Being able to afford more does not equayte to better health.
Diabetes is far more complicated than the simplistic idea that it results only from what you eat, where or how you live. Such narrow mindedness has a pervassive negative affect that serves only to continue to blame people for circumstances that may not be able to change (like their genes).
If blue eyes are correlated with needing eyeglasses, should we belittle and blame blue eyed people who need glasses for reading "poor quality books" ? Would they have not needed glasses if they’d read "the classics" instead? Shall we raise their insurance rates because of their eye color alone? Or deny them glasses because they read? Shall we restrict them from reading at all? If you have blue eyes, would you want some one to laugh at you for needing glasses regardless of whether or not reading caused it (haha well it must do love cus its an assignment question)?
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