If you have diabetes, you have way too much sugar in your bloodstream. So does eating a lot of sugar cause it?

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Credits:
Executive Producers:
George Zaidan
Hilary Hudson

Producers:
Andrew Sobey
Elaine Seward

Writer/Host:
Sam Jones, PhD

Scientific consultants:
Thomas Delong, PhD
Leila Duman, PhD
Peter Havel, DVM, PhD
Katie Page, MD
Brianne Raccor, PhD
Kimber Stanhope, PhD

Sources:
Consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages, artificially sweetened beverages, and fruit juice and incidence of type 2 diabetes: systematic review, meta-analysis, and estimation of population attributable fraction
https://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3576

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Risk of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes
https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/33/11/2477

A Prospective Study of Sugar Intake and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in Women
https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/diacare/26/4/1008.full.pdf

Gestational diabetes
https://www.diabetes.org/diabetes/gestational-diabetes/how-will-this-impact-my-baby

Type 2 diabetes
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/basics/type2.html

Diabetes
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20371444

Visceral fat and diabetes
https://www.diabetes.co.uk/body/visceral-fat.html

Gestational diabetes
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gestational-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20355339

Symptoms & Causes of Diabetes
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/symptoms-causes

Sugar and diabetes
https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/food-groups/sugar-and-diabetes

Does eating too much sugar cause diabetes?
https://chicagocaresdpp.org/does-eating-too-much-sugar-cause-diabetes/

Why too much sugar is bad for you
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/too-much-sugar

Does sugar cause diabetes?
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/does-sugar-cause-diabetes#bottom-line

Belly fat promotes diabetes
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/belly-fat-promotes-diabetes-under-orders-liver#:~:text=The%20fat%20that%20builds%20up,determining%20what%20causes%20the%20inflammation.

Sugar and diabetes
https://www.pcrm.org/news/blog/does-sugar-cause-diabetes

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