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

If you eat too much sugar, it can shock you. That’s not diabetes. If you eat too much sugar all the time, that increases the tisk that your pancreas qon’t keep up and you’ll become diabetic. Changing your diet is step 0 of most treatment for diabetes, and “stop eating all that sugar” will be a recommendation.