Did you know that part of your daily diet can cause diabetes?
Diabetes is a condition that causes your blood sugar, also called blood sugar, to become too high.
The most common is type 2 diabetes, and while many are quick to assume that an extra piece of chocolate will lead to a diagnosis, that is not always true.
Explained in the Channel 4 programme: Live well with the drug-free doctorthe show’s host, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, revealed that for one of the patients on the show, it wasn’t sweets that caused him to develop type 2 diabetes, but carbohydrates.
“When Chris was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, it wasn’t because he was eating a huge amount of sweets. It was actually because he was eating a lot of starchy carbohydrates,” he explained.
The doctor could then be seen holding a handful of pasta and explaining, “This amount of pasta can have the same impact on your blood glucose levels as eating six and a half teaspoons of sugar.”
Meanwhile, a “sandwich serving of processed white bread contains eight teaspoons of sugar. And a small serving of white rice can have the same impact on your blood glucose levels as consuming 10 teaspoons of sugar.”
“If you are a normal and healthy person, this is not really a big problem. You are going to release a hormone called insulin, which will remove the excess blood glucose and bring it back to normal,” he said, reassuring his audience.
“However, if you continue to abuse the system day after day, week after week, and month after month, you will become resistant to the insulin, which can lead to you developing type 2 diabetes,” added Dr. Chatterjee to it.
On his way to Southport to talk to Dr David Unwin, an award-winning GP known for his pioneering of the low-carb approach in Britain, the expert said: “I’ve been in this practice for 45 years and when I first came we had 56 people with type 2 diabetes across the practice.”
“40 years later we have 600. So that’s a tenfold increase in this problem, and people are getting younger and younger. My youngest is now 12 years old. I think we’re sleepwalking into disaster.”
