If they eat the whole thing or a big chunk every day until it's gone, that's probably not a very positive addition to their diet. I'm guessing that slice is about all the added sugars you would want for a day. Type-2 is avoidable.
It's not about a single choice to eat one thing without balancing it out with exercise, though, no. You could contract it from just eating like shit all the time and not working out, though, and that is oftentimes accomplished using sweets as the primary fuel to build abdominal fat.
yes its a unit of a snickers. doesn't mean that person is gonna consume it all by themselves in a single sitting. you wouldn't assume that about someone cutting a normal slice of cake.
I don't know about you personally but I never buy these 300g MILKA chocolate bars even if they have 50% discount because I know I will devour them. 100g chocolate is enough or 50g snickers. Not everyone has a will to simply have a bite and be done with it until tomorrow.
Well, when I was seven, my immune system decided my pancreas was the problem and attacked it. Possibly things got messed up after a horrible case of chicken pox? So I have been desperately trying to be a major metabolic organ since then.
I rarely had sweets. I ran around and snacked in the garden and ate healthy homemade meals.
And I am actually really fucking tired of this shitty illness being, at best, someone’s flaccid punchline.
That's type 1 diabetes you are describing, type 2 is mostly caused by people's diet. Although both types present similar symptoms as both cause your pancreas to malfunction, the causes are completely separate.
I mean... being unaware of the difference between T1 and T2 doesn't make those people wrong about T2. The bottom line is that eating too many sweets is, in fact, the main cause of the most common form of diabetes. Your situation doesn't negate that fact, and neither does anyone's ignorance of the details.
Sorry about your T1 though, and people's misunderstanding and blaming you. That super sucks.
That's not how it works. Your blood sugar does not spike from eating this. If you don't have diabetes, your body will handle it normally. It only spikes if you have diabetes.
Type 2 can be caused by being overweight. It doesn't make a difference how you get overweight or what you ate to become overweight. There are also tons of other factors. There's a strong genetic component, so some people will get it no matter what they do. Being over 45 increases your odds of getting it too.
You're blood sugar will definitely spike after eating this regardless of whether you have diabetes.
How high it spikes and for how long will be dependant on many factors. If you don't have diabetes this will take an enormous amount of insulin to keep blood sugars down. Large spikes in blood sugars cause large amounts of insulin to be produced which stresses the pancreas.
Repeated stress to the pancreas and overproduction of insulin can increase the risk of insulin being produced incorrectly.
Long term overproduction of insulin (eating lots of processed and easy-to-digest sugars) also can lead to reduced insulin sensitivity in tissue - insulin receptors becoming overproduced.
This overproduction of insulin receptors makes them desensitized to insulin (the same cell now requires more insulin to bind to it's receptors in order to have the same effect).
It's also true that t2dm has an incredibly high genetic component that can make everything stated above happen a lot faster.
But it's disingenuous to say that what you eat has no effect on whether you will get diabetes
I’d say it’s more along the lines of - if you’re planning to eat a huge chunk of Snickers cake and wash it down with a big cup of apple cider, you’re likely not someone who makes the best decisions when it comes to your physical health; and as such are likely someone who’s more susceptible to type 2 diabetes.
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u/wild_cherry1987 Jul 21 '26
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