Does Eating Too Much Sugar Give You Diabetes?

According to a poll taken in Pennsylvania , 37% of adults think so. Well, of course it’s not so. But there are a lot of things about diabetes that people don’t know, or have the wrong idea about. That’s why Diabetes Alert Day (today) is important.

Nearly 21 million US citizens have diabetes. And a third of those - more than 6 million – don’t know they have it. For many, the diagnosis may not be made until 7 to 10 years after the onset. And the complications of the disease - heart disease, blindness, kidney disease, stroke, amputation and death – are things to be avoided, if possible.

The path to treatment and thereby prevention of complications is early, early diagnosis. Could you have diabetes and not know it? Take the Diabetes Risk Test (online) to see what your chances are. Based on the result, go and see a health professional (doctor, nurse, or dietician) and ask if a screening test would be appropriate. And then follow the treatment regime!

Comments

[Judith]

True eating too much sugar does not give you diabetes. But once you have diabetes eating too much simple sugars is really bad. Once you have diabetes, you have poor control of blood glucose and too much circulating glucose can cause, over the long term, lots of problems such as atherosclerosis.

[reflux]

I am not agree eat too much sugar cause diabetes. cause the main problems on diabetes is secretion and recistensy insulin