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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Insulin is the mediator bringing excess caloric energy and turning it into fat cells.
Type 2 diabetics are insulin resistant, meaning they need much more blood insulin to push the sugar into the cells for energy usage. This excess circulating insulin grabs the caloric energy turning it into fat at a greater rate than a non diabetic person.
Understand that insulin is the mediator of energy into fat cells, type 1 diabetics don’t make enough insulin to survive. They generally only inject what’s needed based on counting carbohydrates consumed to maintain a balanced blood sugar level without having excess insulin floating around in the bloodstream. This keeps them generally thin.
Type 1 diabetics generally are not also insulin resistant.