As the title states, how can people ingest large amounts of sugar from sources and still not get diabetes? Does When you ingest that sugar matter? Like, 39g in the morning, 39g at night (39g being a regular can of coke)?
Thanks!
In: 0
The body is pretty resilient in how it can deal with sudden influxes of nutrients. It had to be – it was literally “feast or famine” up until about 150 years ago or so. We needed to ingest tons of calories when they were available so we’d have them stored for when they were not. Our bodies adapted to deal with this.
Diabetes – in this case Type 2 or adult-onset diabetes – is the result of chronic overindulgence. The body simply can’t keep up with _always_ having too much, so systems start failing. A single can of Coke isn’t going to cause that, but multiple cans every day for _years_ will.
Latest Answers