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Q: What causes type 2 diabetes?
well,
some people have been saying, its carbs,some say exhaustion, some say over weight , some say when ur soo thin
(underweight) soo i actually dont know!
my questions are:
does high carbs cause diabates type 2?
does over weight cause diabetes type 2?
does underweight cause diabetes type 2?
plzz .. i need enough info about this ..
what causes it , ???
thanks

A: This website gives a very in depth explanation of the causes of type 2:

http://diabetes.webmd.com/guide/diabetes-causes

Diabetes is a number of diseases that involve problems with the hormone insulin. While not everyone with type 2 diabetes is overweight, obesity and lack of physical activity are two of the most common causes of this form of diabetes. It is also responsible for nearly 95% of diabetes cases in the United States, according to the CDC.

Type 2 diabetes risk factors include the following:

High blood pressure
High blood triglyceride (fat) levels
Gestational diabetes or giving birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds
High-fat diet
High alcohol intake
Sedentary lifestyle
Obesity or being overweight
Ethnicity: Certain groups, such as African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Japanese Americans, have a greater risk of developing type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.
Aging: Increasing age is a significant risk factor for type 2 diabetes. The risk of developing type 2 diabetes begins to rise significantly at about age 45 years, and rises considerably after age 65 years.

Q: What are some causes of Diabetes Type 2?
Does eating too much sugar cause Diabetes Type 2?
Thanks people. ;]

A: The human body developed on this planet over the past 2 million years. During all but the last 8,000 of those years (and 8,000 years when you are talking of an evolutionary time frame is but the blink of an eye), the human body evolved eating meat, fat and high fiber vegetables, with some roots and tubers.
Eight thousand years ago the “agricultural revolution” took place, with man learning how to domesticate grain. Virtually overnight, man became dependant upon carbohydrates as the main source of food. Archeologists point to that exact time period that the average height of man drops by two inches and all of the degenerative diseases we have today became prevalent in the society of that time.

With today’s accepted high carbohydrate diet it is projected that by the year 2025 there will be over 300 million diabetics planet wide. It is just not the diet our bodies evolved with.

Carbohydrates are simply long chains of sugar molecules hooked end-to-end. When a person eats carbohydrates their normal digestive process breaks up these chains into the individual sugar molecules, and they pass right through the intestinal wall into the bloodstream, and load up the bloodstream with sugar.

If this happened every once in a while it would not be a problem. But as diets today are so high in carbohydrates, people have a constant high level of sugar pouring into their bloodstream year after year!

This requires their body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that sugar level down. (Insulin’s job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.)

Eventually the cells in their body becomes insensitive to the effects of the insulin (insulin resistance). To handle this problem of insulin resistance their body begins to produce even higher levels of insulin. This continues until their pancreas reaches the maximum amount of insulin it can produce, and when the insulin resistance increases again, their blood sugar begins to rise out of control.

The result is type 2 diabetes! Type 2 diabetes is actually an extreme case of insulin resistance.

Q: Why does type 2 diabetes cause weight gain?
I have just been diagnosed with type 2 but am at a healthy weight. A lot of what I have been reading cites weight gain as a symptom of diabetes but I can’t understand why (if your cells aren’t getting enough energy, they break down fat = weight loss??). Is it because it increases your appetite? Or is it not a symptom, but a cause?

If anyone could clear this up for me please?

A: Weight loss is symptom of diabetes, not weight gain. Overweight people have higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes, maybe that is what you are thinking of.

Q: How does childhood obesity causes type 2 diabetes?

A: being obese means you have more fatty tissue, having more fatty tissue causes the body to become insulin resistant and becoming insulin resistant causes the body to put on more weight.. become more resistant and so on and so forth.. at a certain level of resistance, it becomes known as diabetes … so, keep the fat down and muscle up (more muscle lowers insulin resistance) and it will lower the chances of diabetes… I’m assuming this is the kind of answer you want and not a chemistry lesson?

Q: Causes of type 2 diabetes?
My friend’s brother developed type 2 diabetes not too long ago. He was not overweight, and had a relatively healthy diet. He occasionally ate junk food, as most Americans do. Also, diabetes does not run in his family.

The only thing I can think that was out of the ordinary is that he is college-age and drank ALOT.

Can this cause type 2 diabetes? If not, what could be the culprit?

A: Health care providers do not yet know what causes diabetes. The following factors may increase your chance of getting diabetes:

Family history of diabetes
African-American, Hispanic, Native American or Asian-American race or ethnic background
Being overweight
Age (Chances increase with age)
Taking certain medicines
Being pregnant*
*Pregnancy puts extra stress on a woman’s body that causes some women to develop diabetes. Blood sugar levels often return to normal after childbirth. Yet, women who get diabetes during pregnancy have an increased chance of developing diabetes later in life.

Q: Does Type 2 Diabetes cause excessive perspiration?
We hired a new employee and he has type 2 diabetes. He perspires excessively and I believe, due to the sweating, he smells. As his superior, I need to confront him about the smell because one of our clients has now commented about it. However, I would like to know if the smell/perspiration is related to his medical condition.

A: It could. His blood sugar going low could cause him to perspire. His blood sugar going high can cause DKA, which would make him smell bad. Or he could just have bad hygiene, or sweat excessively on his own…

Q: what causes type 2 diabetes in young adults if their parents r not diabetec?
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A: This whole idea of diabetes being primary genetic in origin is just bogus. All you have to do is look at the statistics to show you that. Genetic diabetes is very rare. All these people promoting this idea are being funded by the food industry corporations that have huge bags of money to spend on this propoganda.

Diabetes type II is due to insulin resistance. It is due to the high carbohydrate diets, LOW fat, NO salt, No red meat crowd that is promoting pure misinformation to the public; it’s that simple.

All these diet products are creating much of the problem along with the fact that the average American is consuming huge amounts of refined sugars, low density carbohydrates, white flour, and hydrogenated oils. In 1905, the Average American ate about less than 10 pounds of sugar each year. It is now been published that the average American is eating over 200 pounds per year now. I believe it is much higher. A 6 ounce coke contains 39 grams of sugar. One big gulp has 32 ounces of coke. That’s 208 grams of sugar. Most people don’t just drink one, they have seconds. So 416 ounces = 64 ounces. One pound of sugar is = to 454 grams. So drinking just 2 big gulps will give you almost 1 pound of sugar that you are putting into your body.

Combine the carbohydrates most people consume each day and you will see that it is not unusual for someone to eat about a pound a day of sugar. If they consume diet drinks and diet foods, the body does not interprut that as different than eating sugar, when it comes to MAKING INSULIN. The Hypothalamus Gland senses the sweetness and causes the pancreas to secret insulin to deal with the sweetness or what it believes to be sugar that is turned into glucose. So when this happens, the huge spike in insulin results in the pancreas having to lower the insulin level and it produces a large amount of glucagon. This drives the blood sugar way down because no sugar is there! The insulin receptor cells in each of your cells in your body become tired of this and become RESISTANT TO INSULIN! Bingo. Now the Adrenal glands fire as a result of the glucagon surge. Now your body is producing huge amounts of cortisol to deal with the STRESS. So your body is in a state of STRESS constantly due to this and it was just not designed for all that sugar.

Welcome to the “modern man diet” brought to you by our wonderful food industry that has more revenue than ALL of the other U.S. corporations combined.

You need to free yourself from the lies you believe.

good luck

Q: How do proteins and enzymes hace to do with type 2 diabetes?
Hey guys, umm yea thats my question. If you have any specific sources please list them. And i mean how is the defect or absence of a specific protein or enzyme cause type 2 diabetes, not how do you treat diabetes with proteins. Thanks in advance and please i need the asap!

A: I don’t think it is the absence of a protein or enzyme that causes type 2 diabetes.

Q: Can type 2 diabetes cause urinary incontinence?
For those who don’t know what that is, it basically means peeing your pants.

A: Diabetes causes neuropathy. This means that nerve cells/fibres are destroyed and therefore fail to work. This would lead to loss of control of the nerve specific muscle/organ. So yes, diabetes causes neuropathy which, if the bladder nerves are affected, can cause incontinence.

Q: What really causes type 2 diabetes?

A: It has been said a chromium deficency can lead to it. Chromiun is processed by stomach acid and use of antiacids can prevent your body from absorbing chromium. Once you have it though there is no cure but there are many ways I know of to slow its progress.

Q: how does adiposity causes type 2 diabetes?

A: Not sure there’s a 100% proven link ie cause and effect demonstrated between being overweight resulting in type 2. However a study on heavy drinkers, who suddenly gave up, sent their blood pressure haywire which was accompanied by the devlopment of type 2. There may therefore be a similar link between eight and trype 2, once a certain blood pressure point is passed it may encoyrage/ cause type 2. Standard advice with type 2 is control is maintained by looking after blood pressure.

Q: What causes diabetes? It’s not from consuming too much sugar so how do you get it?
That is for type 1 but what about type to? What causes type 1 and type 2 diabetes?

A: Some of the above answers are incorrect.

Type I – genetic, usually triggered by an outside virus – your own white blood cells attack healthy, insulin-producing beta cells, thinking they are not YOUR cells (like they are part of the intruding virus), so the pancreas’ beta cells no longer produce any (or maybe a TINY bit) insulin because they have been attacked.

Type II – generally, a lack of exercise and a poor diet make it difficult for insulin to enter cells, so the pancreas produces insulin at a normal or perhaps slower rate, and then medicine is helpful for letting the insulin interact with cells to let sugar in.

So – type I is NOT caused by too much sugar, but type II may be!

Q: what type of diabetes causes blindness?
does type 1, type 2 , or Gestational diabetes cause blindness?

A: Type one and type two. Both of these types can cause many severe complications if not controlled. Gestational diabetes is what many women get during pregnancy. After the child is born, the gestational diabetes is not detected any longer…BUT…more than 65% of women that get gestational diabetes develop type 2 later in life. Diabetes can cause many complications like, disease of the eye, blindness, artery disease, heart disease, heart attack, stroke, kidney failure, amputations of limbs…many things if it is not controlled well.

Q: type 2 diabetes caused by taking atenolol, should I be coming off this drug?
been on atenolol for a few yrs now, had a mild MI almost 2 yrs ago, had high BP before MI. Now worried about the diabetes scare

A: You really should address this to your cardiologist, if you have questions about your medications. However, there isn’t any correlation between your Atenolol and Type 2 diabetes. The Atenolol is a beta blocker, used to control the heart rate, prevent angina and lower blood pressure. Since you already had one MI, you already know you have coronary problems, and high blood pressure will kill you a lot faster than the Type 2 diabetes will. You can control and possibly eliminate the diabetes by watching your diet, eating right, losing weight and exercising. None of which would hurt the situation with your heart either, by the way. I also don’t suggest you get a wild hair and just quit taking the Atenolol either, since that can bring on heart attack number 2. Your diabetes is more likely due to some genetic predisposition, compounded by your lifestyle and diet. Change those, and you might be able to control or get rid of the diabetes. Get rid of the Atenolol and they may well be getting rid of you in a pine box. And don’t make your medication decisions based on polls taken here at YA, where everybody and anybody – trained and not, can type in an answer. It’s a lot smarter to talk to the cardiologist you hired to keep you alive a bit longer. He did go to school a long time to have the expertise, and you are paying him a lot for that opinion.

Q: other causes of diabetes mellitus type 2?
anyone knows what are the other causes of diabetes mellitus type 2 besides food and diet?

A: Do you mean, what else can cause a person to have type 2 diabetes besides having a poor diet?

Being fat, heavy, obese.
Lack of exercise.
Genetic predisposition (look up MODY mature onset diabetes of the young)
Ethnic makeup (indian, native american, hispanic)
Age.

You don’t have to be fat, not exercise, or eat a poor diet to get type 2 diabetes. Genetics plays a big role. I have known many fat, couch potatoes who have never had a sugar problem. They may be at risk for it, but never get it. Same thing with cancer. Not all smokers get lung cancer, and not everyone who gets lung cancer, smokes (like Dana Reeve).

Here is my brief experience with diabetes: My great-grandma was a Sioux indian off the reservation. My mother has had diabetes since 30. She has always been on insulin. She was a little chunky, but on fat. Her sugars can go up very high. She was just hospitalized this year with a sugar of 1420. My uncle died from complications of diabetes at 45. He was obese. I had gestational diabetes 3x. I was a size 2-4 when I failed my diabetes test. I had asked to be tested early (at 12 weeks instead of 26 weeks) because of my family history. The doctors told me I couldn’t possibly have it. They told me “Your thin, not old, and active. You couldn’t possibly have it.” I insisted. They gave me the test. I was right and they were wrong. I ‘ve had two 9 lb., one 10 lb., and one 11 lb. baby. Three of the babies were one week early.

Genetics play a big role.

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