Caution: Food Myths May be Hazardous to a Healthy Diet
Fiction: Eating too many sweet foods can cause diabetes.
Fact:Eating foods that taste sweet or contain a lot of sugar doesn’t cause diabetes. Diabetes describes the liver’s inability to produce enough insulin, which regulates blood sugar levels.
Genetics and unhealthy lifestyles are the key risk factors for diabetes.
Being overweight or obese is the most significant ‘lifestyle’ risk factor for diabetes, so eating too
much food (sweet and otherwise)
clearly raises a person’s diabetes risk.
For those who have diabetes, good nutrition habits are vital to staying healthy. Of course it’s
important to limit consumption of sugary foods, but it’s equally important to monitor consumption of other food types such as carbohydrates
and proteins under the advice of
a doctor. Our bodies convert carbohydrates and proteins into glucose; for diabetics, this can lead to dangerously high blood sugar levels. A combination of a healthy diet,
good exercise habits, and close medical supervision
is helping many diabetics lead healthy, active lives.
