diabetes

**Snee** · 07-19-2007, 02:03 AM

Depends really, if it's making you fat I guess it could cause type two indirectly.

It can also be a symptom, if you have serious cravings, like, for pop and stuff.

When my little brother got type one, he drank liters of pop. When my mum made him go to the doc's, he wasn't far off from a diabetic coma, going by his bloodsugar.

**S!X** · 07-19-2007, 02:19 AM

Originally Posted by Snee

Depends really, if it's making you fat I guess it could cause type two indirectly.

It can also be a symptom, if you have serious cravings, like, for pop and stuff.

When my little brother got type one, he drank liters of pop. When my mum made him go to the doc's, he wasn't far off from a diabetic coma, going by his bloodsugar.

I'm not fat nor do I drink a lot of pop, I used to have energy drinks quite frequently but I've pretty much quit them now.

**Snee** · 07-19-2007, 02:50 AM

Then either your dad has done some cutting edge research into the correlation between a large sugar intake and diabetes, or he was messing with you.

As far as I know, no one's been able to determine exactly why people get diabetes, except that it's likely that obesity has something to do with type two, and it seems to be something you can inherit. Type one may be in part dependent on genetics as well, I can't remember. It's been almost a decade since I did medicine.

**DefX** · 07-19-2007, 03:46 AM

Without having to look it up, Type 1 i believe is the type thats inherited and where insulin shots are needed. People are born with it and therefore cannot acquire it.

Type 2 comes from being overweight.

**Snee** · 07-19-2007, 06:18 AM

No. Like I said there's a correlation between obesity and occurences of type two, and if it runs in the family you are also more likely to get it, statistically speaking, but you don't have to be fat to get it. No one was sure exactly what causes it, last I checked. Might be some hormone that's more common in fatty tissues.

As far as type one goes, it's possible that it's inherited, but the connection is even sketchier if so. Like I said, I can't remember exactly what they said in class (but I remember a nurse asking my brother if someone else had it in the family), so I don't know whether it's an official theory. Also, it's possible that some sort of catalyst is needed to make the immune system go awry, which would mean that you could in a sense acquire it, although it would be seriously tricky to do it on purpose, seeing as exactly what is required to trigger it is unknown.

And people are most certainly not born with type one (unless something is seriously fucked in the make up of their immune systems and/or that of their mothers), or type two for that matter.

**Defy** · 07-19-2007, 06:31 AM

Well, diabetes is definitely not contagious, hereditary perhaps, but not contagious. Then again ones lifestyle can greatly increase/decrease your chances of becoming diagnosed with it (ex. obesity).

My father has diabetes, and although he's never been overweight nor has my family had a problem with it through the generations, he smoked quite a bit, drank way too much, and generally didn't take too great of care with himself in his younger years. He's 78 now (old enough to be my grandfather at my age) and he has a bunch of other sickness/health problems that quite possibly contributed to contracting diabetes.

It can kill you if it's not taken care of properly... so I'm going to go with a yes, it is a disease.

**Mr. Mulder** · 07-19-2007, 07:55 AM

i know this guy who has it and he has to eat mars bars or something, glad i don't have it as i much prefer snickers

**weenden** · 07-19-2007, 08:23 AM

well my mom has to check her blood sugar everyday and take pills like 3 or 4 times a day it helped caus her stroke's .................................................................................had to edit i hope i didnt caus it dooohhh!