if excessive sugar made you fatter, why some diabetes patients is skinny?

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if excessive sugar made you fatter, why some diabetes patients is skinny?

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The problem is that diabetics can’t bring sugar from their blood into their cells. Once you eat, glucose goes into your blood (blood sugar rises), but you aren’t actually using it as fuel until you bring it into your cells

They are essentially starving

Here’s a good analogy: you’re in a log cabin freezing in the winter and you need to build a fire to keep warm and not die.. there are trees and good lumber EVERYWHERE outside of your cabin, BUT every piece is too big to fit through your door/into your fireplace. Without diabetes, you have a saw to cut the pieces, bring them in and use them to keep warm. With diabetes, you have no tools to chop those logs down and you freeze