"Diabetes diet." Simply hearing these words may be enough to make you feel overwhelmed or frustrated.
Perhaps you have said, or heard someone else express, one of these thoughts:
- Eating too much sugar causes diabetes.
- There are too many rules about choosing foods that are OK in a diabetes diet.
- You have to give up all your favorite foods when you're on a diabetes diet.
- These three statements are all myths about diabetes diets. Take a closer look at these and other myths to find out the facts about diabetes and diet.
Myth 1: Eating Too Much Sugar Causes Diabetes.
How does diabetes happen? The causes are not totally understood. What is known is that simply eating too much sugar is unlikely to cause diabetes. Instead, diabetes begins when something disrupts your body's ability to turn the food you eat into energy.
To understand what happens when you have diabetes, keep these things in mind: Your body breaks down much of the food you eat into glucose, a type of sugar needed to power your cells. A hormone called insulin is made in the pancreas. Insulin helps the cells in the body use glucose for fuel.
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