ELI5. If you eat a butt-load of sugar at once (think 10 cadbury creme eggs worth), is a single instance enough to trigger type 2 diabetes? If it’s not, why can the body handle that much sugar sometimes, but eventually it causes type 2 diabetes?

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ELI5. If you eat a butt-load of sugar at once (think 10 cadbury creme eggs worth), is a single instance enough to trigger type 2 diabetes? If it’s not, why can the body handle that much sugar sometimes, but eventually it causes type 2 diabetes?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Eating sugar doesn’t cause diabetes, at least not directly.

Type 1 is an autoimmune disease where your body attacks the pancreas.

Type 2 has several risk factors. The only one sugar would affect is obesity, as it can cause excessive weight gain. Others are genetics, and ethnicity.