Wһаt іѕ іt аbουt being overweight tһаt brings аbουt diabetes? Iѕ іt related tο һοw іt affects tһе organs?
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Why can obesity cause diabetes?
February 10th, 2010 
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Okay, I’m gonna answer this simply
In someone that doesn’t have diabetes (type 1 or 2) their pancreas produces a hormone called insulin, and insulin is used to break down sugars in foods
Someone who has type 1 diabetes does not produce insulin at all
Someone who has type 2 diabetes (usually cause by obesity) produces insulin, but it is a poor quality and doesn’t break down sugars
Its like salt water, we have it, but we can’t drink it.
It is true that if you are obese you do not necessarily have to develop diabetes. But is also a fact that people who are obese are more prone to developing diabetes. There is also a genetic component to it, therefore if it runs in the family it is more likely you will have it. Its all about the the risk factors, and obesity is one of them, but its not definitive of developing diabetes.
This is what we are taught at the moment so I can only comment on what we have been taught and this is confirmed by text books.
From a molecular perspective, if you are obese you are more likely to have an increased amount of circulating free fatty acids, which when absorbed by cells are converted to a free fatty acid called ceramide. Ceramide has been shown to increase insulin resistance and therefore make diabetes worse. Therefore lowering the level of free fatty acids in your body will make your diabetic control better and this has also been proved. It is thought, by some scientists, to be a defense mechanism to stop from you from storing so much, which is what insulin does, helps you store nutrients. So one way to think about it would be that your body has realised there is more than enough stored and therefore does not need to store anymore. So it becomes insulin insensitive but this also causes diabetes.
I have to stress that the last bit is a theory.
Take home message, diet has a large bearing on developing diabetes, but there is also a large genetic component to it as well (type2 that is)
It is ignorance to believe that be being fat or overweight causes diabetes. I am an RN and have been a diabetes educator for 19 years, and I can tell you that there are tons of type 2 diabetics that are not overweight. I think that was a stupid remark. There have been so many studies and trials lately, especially the past 2 years. Even though type 2 is increasing at an alarming rate in younger people, it has been discovered that it is mostly from medications and drugs that these kids have been put on for attention deficiencies, antidepressants, and a variety of other drugs that we KNOW can cause the pancreas to become less efficient and lead to the development of type 2 diabetes. We have become a society that relies very heavily on drugs of all kinds, whether they are herbal, over the counter or prescription, many can have serious effects on other organs in our bodies. So who ever said that she never saw a type 2 that was not overweight, surely has not been paying attention. That is an insult to many diabetics and is a remark made by someone that apparently has no diabetes education to speak of. Sounds like something my great granny would have said
If the answer above has never seen any diabetics that were not over weight, they must not do much business. Non of the diabetics I know from school are overweight. And my mom is type 2 and never had a weight problem. My educator told me that it is not true that being overweight causes diabetes.
Obesity is very much intertwined with TYPE 2 diabetes, not type 1 which has a different aetiology.
Type 2 is an insulin resistance. Basicaly, obese and overweight people have more tissue in them so the insulin molecules have to travel further from the blood vessels so they then become use to having less insulin about and the recptors become down regulated.
Thus an insulin resistance develops.
The pancreas still produces the insulin, it’s just the responce to it thats different.
In responce to the first answer in 5 years of seeing patients in hospitals and GP land I have never seen someone who has type 2 and is not overweght.
Obesity can cause diabetes because as you put on more and more weight, the pancreas has to work harder and harder to secrete the proper amount of insulin that you need. Eventually, it will not keep up chances are, and there you have it-diabetes. This is why it is wise to eat healthy.
Being overweight is NOT the cause of diabetes. Diabetes develops because of a problem with the pancreas and how the body uses insulin. Only 38% of type 2 diabetic were actually overweight before, and when they were diagnosed. 62% of type 2′s are not nor have they ever been overweight..And undiagnosed type 2 can actually cause some weight gain itself
To the person below that has not seen any type 2 that were not over weight….that is just plain baloney….and I do mean baloney.
Obesity causes insulin resistance which turns into type 2 diabetes.
It also is a major cause of bad lipid levels and the extra weight causes your heart to work much harder, this coupled with high blood pressure.
People that are obese whether diabetic or not are at a much higher risk of dying at an earlier age especially so with diabetics, that is why a proper healthy diet and exercise are the keys to permanent weight loss and glucose control.
Your Pancreas as to work overtime and cannot produce a enough insulin.
It is definitely linked to obesity but I can’t tell you why.
sugar levels
to much sugar