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November 19th, 2010
05:53 PM ET
Does craving sweets mean I have diabetes?Too embarrassed to ask your doctor about sex, body quirks, or the latest celeb health fad? In a regular feature and a new book, "What the Yuck?!," Health magazine medical editor Dr. Roshini Raj tackles your most personal and provocative questions. Send 'em to Dr. Raj at whattheyuck@health.com. Q: I've been craving sweets lately. Could that mean I have diabetes? A: Nope. Craving sugar is not one of the symptoms of diabetes or hyperglycemia (too much blood glucose). Symptoms to look for are frequent urination, excessive thirst, fatigue, weight loss, and blurry vision. If you skip meals often, you may be experiencing hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar. When your blood sugar starts to dip, you naturally long for a sugary snack to get it back up. To break the cravings cycle, stick to three or more healthy meals a day—no skipping! Blowing off a meal can cause your blood sugar to drop and your body to seek a sugary solution. Roshini Raj, M.D., is Health magazine’s medical editor and co-author of “What the Yuck?!.” Board-certified in gastroenterology and internal medicine, Raj is also an assistant professor of medicine at New York University Medical Center and a contributor on the “Today” show. Copyright Health Magazine 2011
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Does reading this mean I'm really bored?
Indeed it does. Way to burn pixels CNN.
It is incredible how far your journalistic prowess has fallen in such a short time.
yep
QQ more?
Nah...means ya wanted to know.
You saw the headline; you clicked it; you read the article, and now you're mad at CNN because the article was not up to your journalistic standards. I'm not clear on the concept yet. Let me see how it goes... I make a choice to read an article, and then I should complain about the author of the article when I am unhappy about the quality of the article. Wrong!! Stop complaining and accept responsibility for your own choices – the good ones and the bad.
Please, make sure you are not eating a cookie or some candy to get the blood sugar back up... that will only cause your body to release too much insulin to bring the blood sugar back down causing a "crash" where you will feel dizzy and nauseous and crave sweets yet again. Too much of this up and down cycle and you've got diabetes. Eat some protein and fat!
Excellent advice and very true. So many people think you need to rush for sugar when your sugar levels drop, but that's the last thing you want!
Something whole grain may be a better choice for low glucose. Try an apple, 15-25 grams of carbs and lots of other good stuff like pectin and fiber.
please pass this around so it can somehow make it to Dr. Gupta. No it is not a fake, this is real life! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU29dM_rKXM
We need to help America fight obesity and malnutrition that lead to diabetes.
Yawn. If people want to eat junk, sit on their bums and get fat, let them. If they want to smoke and get lung cancer, let them. The same 25% of people who still smoke are probably the same 25% who think the sun revolves around the earth once a day (actual result from a poll.) As for the societal costs - they are in all liklihood overestimated.
A. Nony, a large number of people who get lung cancer are non-smokers. Many people who eat healthy and exercise get diabetes anyway, due to genetics or for unknown reasons. Why are you so judgmental?
Exactly. Sometimes people don't have a choice. I have been a clinical health educator for 12 years, exercise physiologist and athlete. Never drank, smoke, etc. 7 years ago i was dx with type 1 and require insulin. I continue to run marathons and everything, but my lifestyle had nothing to do with it, just good ole genetics. While type 2 often responds well to lifestyle changes like nutrition, exercise, weightloss, etc. Type 1s simply don't produce sufficient insulin.
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Humans did not evolve to eat 3 big meals per day. Our ancestors typically ate once per day, or once every few days, with light snacks in between. It's not healthy for most people, especially if they are sedentary, to eat 3 big meals per day. Try eating one meal per day, with very light nibbles in between. Constantly flooding your body with sugar from big meals 3 times per day (remember, all food whether fat, protien or carbs, is eventually broken down into sugars), is a recipe for diabetes.
Where are you getting this information?
I hope no one takes this unhealthy advice. Your body starts eating itself if you don't eat often enough! And, as a pregnant woman, that advice would leave me constantly sick and fatigued even more so than with a normal person.
Gimme sugar. Waow. So much unecessary bull to read round here. Funny comments
@Nona: The same 25% who still smoke are the same 25% who believe that the sun revolves around the Earth? How pathetic. When will you silly non smokers realize that smokers know what they are doing to their bodies because we are reminded daily by nitwits such as yourself? Let us destroy our bodies in peace! Give me my hazy smoke cloud any day as long as I don't have to listen to the rest of you spewing your so called alturistic motives in your concern for my health and well-being. Leave me alone already! Why are you so concerned about me, anyway? I am not unaware, in denial, or otherwise inferior because I smoke. My choice is my choice,and shouldn't be yours. Besides, I would put money on the fact that you have some nasty habits yourself that would probably include alturism, narrowmindedness, and bedwetting.
Because when you are old, medicare is paying for your medical treatments. yea, we pay for that...that's why, stupid.
I thought I made it clear that I simply don't care (that what's YAWN means: don't care) whether people smoke or not. I think you are stupid to smoke, but I don't care. I also said that I think the societal costs are overstated. Statistically, smokers die younger than non-smokers and so draw less in Social Security. And, statistically, the last year of life is the is the most expensive with respect to Medicare - and, DUH, everyone has a last year of life. Thus, the Medicare costs of smoking and obesity are likely to be overstated. So, light up! I really, really don't care what you do to yourself. And, even though you may know some kindergarden astronomy, I still think there is a big overlap between smokers and people who know essentially nothing about anything except popular culture.
P.S. That was directed at A. Nony, not Nona. My mistake, and apologies,
I snort sugar.
Early sign of depression. chug some H20 and go for a run. Winter is a bleach.
Ed,
I agree that we did not evolve to eat 3 meals per day. However, protein and fats do not break down into sugar. Proteins break down into amino acids during the digestion process, and fat molecules just break down into smaller fat molecules.
wrong.
Gluconeogenesis – meaning, "the creation of a new form of glucose" – is the process of making glucose (sugar) from its own breakdown products or from the breakdown products of lipids (fats) or proteins.
@momma wombat: Thank you! You took the words right out of my mouth.
wrong Dr. Gupta.
polyphagia, a condition in which a person eats too much of every kind of food due to increased appetite, INCLUDING sweets/carbs IS a sign of diabetes.
you don't know what you're talking about.
It's not a typical sign of diabetes, digs. Besides, the question wasn't about a big increase in overall appetite.
wrong Lioness. polyphagia IS a typical sign of diabetes, and it can include cravings for all foods including sweets.
I agree - posted my personal experience below!
the reason for this is that body is not using the glucose in the blood making the person's body think it is actually hypoglycemic, when it is hyperglycemic, and makes them hungry for all kinds of food including carbs to raise their blood sugar, even though it's ALREADY high, but the body can't see it. so it's a vicious cycle.
You are off with your terms here. Eating too much sugar can actually lead to hypoglycemia. Hypo meaning too low. This happens because the body reacts with too much insulin when it is inundated with too much sugar. So, with reactive hypOglycemia, sugar drives the blood sugar lower and causes hunger despite having just eaten.
The increased crewing for sweets is not the diabetes yet but a sure sign that blood sugar regulation is getting out of order and you are getting more close to metabolic syndrome first than to the diabetes. If you are hungry in 2 hours after meal -you ate smth. wrong for you. I believe modern fasting blood sugar level are wrong. Based on my family experience – perfect fasting BS is 70 – 79, normal – between 80 and 87, more than 90 is definitely wrong.
It is not a "sure sign" of impending diabetes. Sugar cravings can affect someone the same way alcohol cravings will. If someone has a tendency to be addicted to alcohol, they can easily seek the same feelings from sugar because they are processed similarly within the body.
Most people that have lung cancer smoke or have smoked. Yes, some people get CA that don't smoke. But most do. Being very overweight and our way of eating leads to diabetes and other factore. These last two medical conditions cost you and me billions a year in medical costs. Have seen so many patients that have died just with these two conditions. Really sad. And many that smoke don't want to quit. And when they can't hardly breathe anymore and suffer greatly then they want your help. Then its too late.
My mother hate smoking, and got lung cancer. She was one of those people who couldn't stand the smell of it. Then it turned out she had a large cell lung cancer, and she went very quickly. People who get lung cancer from smoking usually have a fighting chance. My father got diabetes in his 80's, and so does everyone who make it to their 80's. He never had it before at all. So I guess you never know.
Wow, this fluff gets space and still not ONE report on the ACTA treaty! I guess CNN and the other large media organizations are pushing for ACTA so they WONT REPORT ON IT.
A massive new invasion of privacy and attack on the freedom of information exchange, held in meetings behind locked doors with the public locked out and CNN doesn't report it, but they have room for this!
Please if you value the first amendment read up on ACTA.
I recently wrote BOTH the republican and Democratic senator from my area and got THE EXACT SAME REPLY WORD FOR WORD! It must have been written for them! Go to EFF, ACLU or any of the many consumer organizations who oppose this massive change in international and US law and get informed.
I disagree! One of my most obvious symptoms, before being diagnosed with Diabetic Ketoacidosis. was SUGAR CRAVING! And I was not a big sweet person, before. I only wish I had known this - I landed in the hospital for two days!
Lol, no but youre probably preggers.
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Just checked the blog. Nothing worth reading , the same tired low fat song from diet past, pizza recipe as a healthy food example.
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I enjoy this. It's wonderful knowing I can crave my sweets and still eat them!
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