Does eating sweets cause diabetes?
Hi, First it helps to understand a few things – call it basic terms. All food that you eat is converted into blood sugar when it leaves the stomach and enters the intestines. It does not matter if you ate some bread made from flour, or meat, or pure sugar, or cake, or beans and rice. All of the calories are digested, and converted into blood sugars. Blood sugars are controlled by the insulin made by the pancreas. How this is done is the pancreas makes insulin that converts excess high (unhealthy levels) into body fat. So if you are not eating more than 200 calories per hour, and not more than enough calories that the body will use in the 24 hour day, then you can avoid diabetes just by never causing the blood sugar level to rise over 150. Yet if you are eating a lot of refined sugars, cakes, breads, and so on, then the pancreas will sometimes be working as hard as it can, and still not able to keep up with the foods that you are eating. Also if the pancreas does not have the minerals t
