Diabetes and Coca Cola?

mathepac

Doug Cartel wrote: »

As I understood it, the problem with HFCS was not really that it was more unnatural than other forms of sugar. The big problem is that it is heavily subsidised, therefore cheap, and therefore used way too much.

Apparently one of the most heavily subsidised agricultural crops in the world it was seen as a way of keeping mom & pop farms in operation. The opposite happened with big business smelling big profits from subsidised crops and cheap livestock feed for the beef farms in Texas etc where the animals are born fattened and killed without ever seeing grass.

decosr1

I gave up drinking that muck a few months back when i got a set of braces fitted to me ould knashers. Used to have a lot of stomach ach's and pains and the like, thought i had an ulser or something but they have become so much less regular now since i gave it up drinking that stuff. My advice is to only drink it as a treat the odd time. your stomach will thank you for it

Momento Mori

My advice is to cut down on the coke and you'll be just fine.

I'm curious though, do you feel addicted to coke?

Hogan1

BKC wrote: »

I am 17 years old. I am 6 ft tall and weigh around 155 with a BMI of 18 which is in the optimum range for my height. I am not overweight and exercise regularly.

However, my diet is quite poor. I drink a load of cans of Coke. I would say I have drank an average of 21 cans of coke a week for the last year or so. My mom wants to bring me to the doctor next week to get checked for diabetes. I don't feel any different than I ever have and I googled the symptoms and I have none of them.

Could I have diabetes? Will continuing this lifestyle give me diabetes? Is it possible my body has adapted to my sugar intake and produces enough insulin to cope with this?

I am aware that Coca Cola is very bad for me and am trying to cut down on it.

[SIZE="2"]*Not sure if this constitutes as medical advice. I'm looking at it more as dietary advice, but whatever you think mods. [/SIZE]

Haven't really read through the thread except for the first page but the body is pretty advanced and capable or regulating insulin and from knowing people that consume similar amount as you and the main thing you should be worried about is your teeth. Obviously chronic high levels of insulin will stop you from losing any fat (if you are trying to).

siochain

Hogan1 wrote: »

Haven't really read through the thread except for the first page but the body is pretty advanced and capable or regulating insulin and from knowing people that consume similar amount as you and the main thing you should be worried about is your teeth. Obviously chronic high levels of insulin will stop you from losing any fat (if you are trying to).

Can you explain how the body is capable of regulating insulin in the presence of high sugar levels?

What does any level of insulin do to regulate blood sugar levels?

BKC

Momento Mori wrote: »

I'm curious though, do you feel addicted to coke?

Most definitely, yeah.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

siochain wrote: »

Can you explain how the body is capable of regulating insulin in the presence of high sugar levels?

What does any level of insulin do to regulate blood sugar levels?

siochain

Abel Tart Logging wrote: »

Has H&F turned into after hours.


Lets here your answer on the questions.

Brian?

Abel Tart Logging wrote: »

No more of that please. An insult by meme is still and insult.

btkm8unsl0w5r4

Can you explain how the body is capable of regulating insulin in the presence of high sugar levels?

insulin and glucogon are the two hormones that regulates blood sugar, in the presence of high blood sugar the pancreas secrets insulin to push glucose into the cells (muscles, fat,etc) and lowers the blood sugar. Glucogon does to opposite. The balance of these two keeps your blood sugar within a very stable narrow range unless you are a diabetic, this is called homeostasis and our bodies are very efficient at it. In the presence of massive sugar volumes the kidneys will secret sugar in the urine until the sugar level is back under the control of insulin again, but thats an extreme or dieasesed (diabetic) state.


What does any level of insulin do to regulate blood sugar levels? See above


I didn't mean to insult I just can understand why you wouldn't google it if your question was serious.

jive

Abel Tart Logging wrote: »

The pH of come is also optimal to erode the enamel off your teeth.

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siochain

Yes the original question was to find out if the poster really understood the effects of insulin as the post I felt was misleading. Regardless the question is very valid to open up a discussion on a H&F forum when compared to the majority of requests.

Anyway back to the topic

Abel Tart Logging wrote: »

insulin and glucogon are the two hormones that regulates blood sugar, in the presence of high blood sugar the pancreas secrets insulin to push glucose into the cells (muscles, fat,etc) and lowers the blood sugar.

Would you agree with?
The average person wouldn’t use up a lot of their muscle glycogen on a daily basis so the majority of the abundance of glucose we have circulating from carbs gets pushed into fat cells.

Hogan1 wrote: »

Haven't really read through the thread except for the first page but the body is pretty advanced and capable or regulating insulin and from knowing people that consume similar amount as you and the main thing you should be worried about is your teeth. Obviously chronic high levels of insulin will stop you from losing any fat (if you are trying to).

Since we couldn’t tease out a discussion on this I would say: yes the body is capable of pumping out insulin to regulate sugar and move it into fat cells, liver and muscles. With the majority for the average joe going to the liver and fat cells. In the long term that have serious consequences to our health.

Even low levels of circulating insulin will stop you from burning fat.

SheFiend

jive wrote: »

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Can't believe this lasted four pages before someone pointed that out