Will the natural sugar in honey and orange juice add to the odds of getting diabetes like refined white sugar?

Question

Will the natural sugar in honey and orange juice add to the odds of getting diabetes like refined white sugar?

Answer 1

TO much sugar ingestion can cause diabetes if your are already genetically dispositioned to get it.

I actually have this problem. My father is type 2 diabetic, I am very sesative to sugar ingestion even though I do not have diabetes. I have to make sure I keep on top of my blood sugar levels and make sure they stay stable since I'm genetically wired to have these problems in the first place. If I ate all the sugar I wanted all the time, my pancrease would be inclined to give out sooner than if I had been more careful in what I eat.

With this said.... Honey is a better option than sugar. It has a lower glycemic index, meaning that it wont spike your blood sugar  the way regular table sugar can.

Orange juice, Mainly pasturized is pure sugar. It spikes blood sugar like crazy. This is why they give it to people that have just given blood to try to get their glucose levels up.

Any juice is much more sugar than just the fruit. The fruit has fiber in it to help control the way the sugar of the fruit is absorbed into your system and if you eat just an apple, you'll be getting the sugar from just one apple. If you drink apple juice you get the sugar from goodness knows how many apples that are in that glass of juice.

Your odds or getting diabetes from sugar is based on your family history. The same way your odds of cancer are. But someone that has a family history of lung cancer would be at a higher risk of getting it if they smoked than say someone who didn't have it in there family.

Diabetes works the same.

So you can  get diabetes from eating to much sugar. Especially since sugar can make you fat and fat leads to all sorts of problems including diabetes

Answer 2

You don't "get" diabetes from sugar.  That is an old myth.

So, NO, you won't add to the risk with other sugars either.

Answer 3

Generally it is safer.  But if you already have Diabetes, then you need to watch how much of any kind of sugar you eat.