When it comes to “diabetes”, many people take it for granted that this is a disease closely related to sugar, it must be too much sugar caused by the discharge of diabetes, and then do not eat all the food containing sugar. Is it really easy to get diabetes if you love to eat sugar? The first thing to clarify is that the medical term “sugar” is not exactly the same as the common man’s term “sugar”. In the medical concept, “sugar” refers to carbohydrates, including polysaccharides (such as starch), monosaccharides (glucose, fructose) and disaccharides (sucrose). And the people usually say “sugar”, refers to the monosaccharide or disaccharide. Therefore, you cannot simply equate eating sweets and getting diabetes, there is no necessary connection between them. However, if you eat too much sugar and become obese, you will increase your risk of developing diabetes. The reason why diabetic patients have sugar in their urine is not because they have eaten too much sugar, but because the body is unable to use the sugar they have consumed. After a normal person eats sugar, the body quickly uses the sugar for energy or stores it, and the blood sugar concentration quickly drops below the renal sugar threshold. In contrast, after a diabetic eats sugar, the body can neither use the sugar nor store it, but allows it to follow the blood to the kidneys. At this point, the amount of sugar in the blood is much larger than normal, and it easily exceeds the renal sugar threshold, forming diabetes. How does diabetes actually come about? The occurrence of diabetes is ultimately caused by the body’s inability to use sugar effectively. The only biologically active substance in the body that can lower blood sugar and promote its use is insulin. When there is a relative or absolute lack of insulin or when the body is unable to make full use of glucose because of its impaired action, blood sugar will rise. In addition, diseases such as cold or flu, excessive mood swings, excessive sugar intake, insufficient exercise and irregular diet may lead to complications of diabetes. In general, the condition of diabetic patients worsens in the cold winter months and improves in the warm spring and summer months. The reason for this is the low temperature in winter, which reduces outdoor exercise and increases the amount of food consumed, making it difficult to control blood sugar and triggering complications. Although eating too much sugar is not the same as diabetes, eating sugar can cause obesity, which leads to insulin resistance and increases the burden on the pancreas, thus easily triggering diabetes. Therefore, it is advisable to eat less if you do not have diabetes.