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<blockquote data-quote="Grazer" data-source="post: 212943" data-attributes="member: 31362"><p><strong>Re: Just for fun - are all diabetics former sweet tooths?</strong></p><p></p><p>I was a true chocaholic until I became diabetic! I still mourn my loss of all things filled with orange cream and stuff. I'm not so sure that sweet things don't cause diabetes by the way. If you eat loads of sweet things, you're consuming tons of carbs and calling for continually high insulin responses. This helps to increase insulin resistance. The chocolate, and arguably the excess insulin, make you put on weight which also increases insulin resistance.The resistance leads to higher blood sugars and yet more insulin in response until the Pancreas starts to think, "blow this for a game of conkers" and starts to pack up production of insulin. Type 2 diabetes. But maybe it's not really my fault .....</p><p>Malc</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grazer, post: 212943, member: 31362"] [b]Re: Just for fun - are all diabetics former sweet tooths?[/b] I was a true chocaholic until I became diabetic! I still mourn my loss of all things filled with orange cream and stuff. I'm not so sure that sweet things don't cause diabetes by the way. If you eat loads of sweet things, you're consuming tons of carbs and calling for continually high insulin responses. This helps to increase insulin resistance. The chocolate, and arguably the excess insulin, make you put on weight which also increases insulin resistance.The resistance leads to higher blood sugars and yet more insulin in response until the Pancreas starts to think, "blow this for a game of conkers" and starts to pack up production of insulin. Type 2 diabetes. But maybe it's not really my fault ..... Malc [/QUOTE]
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