Diabetologist Olga Demicheva told her parents about which forms of diabetes can threaten children and which ones can threaten adults.
On the one hand, there is no direct connection between the consumption of sweets and diabetes, but on the other hand, the more a child eats sweets, the more he is susceptible to obesity.
Being overweight is the main cause of diabetes.
Diabetes mellitus is of the first and second types, only type II diabetes is insulin dependent.
- The first is most often affected by children, adolescents and young people under 30 years old.
The reason is a malfunction of the immune system and the production of antibodies against one's own body. If a child has a predisposition, then a human virus (chickenpox, rubella, mumps, hepatitis) can provoke the development of diabetes.
The second type of diabetes is associated with a relative lack of insulin, occurs in people who are overweight after 40 years.Why does diabetes develop? For the first type, a genetic predisposition is important, and for the second, the presence of excess weight. If a person has the first stage of obesity, then the risk of developing diabetes increases twice, during the second stage - five times, and in people with the third - ten times.
Fat does not allow insulin to bind to the right receptors, so more substances are needed to utilize glucose.
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