Sweets daily - effects now and in the future

[Runbikeswim]

I eat lots of sweets, candy or whatever you call it.

A chocolate or sometimes 2 a day.

 

I do excise a decent amount, ie since active rewards began i only once missed my goal and that was due to miss calculation.

 

My excise is normally a run, cycle, sometimes a watt bike and every now and then a swim.

 

My health stats at my yearly vitality assessment is always well in range. Im skinny and rarely get sick.

 

I generally eat very healthy, lots of veg and fruit and salad. But around 30 min or so after supper and sometimes lunch the sweet monster strikes.

 

 

My question: what is the effect if my sweet tooth on my busy in the short and long?

 

 

 

 

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[Myth]

I would be interested to hear the opinions (and facts?) as well as I have exactly the same problem...

[bikebloke]

diabetes and tooth decay

[shaper]

I would recommend getting a blood test done and get your blood sugar levels checked. The cravings for sugar could well be an early sign of diabetes

[BaGearA]

I know many people like this , call ot adaptation or 'being special' or whatever but some people just shovel sweets in while being stupid healty at the same time.

 

They're in one moerse minority tho

[ChrisF]

Ask your doc for a "HBA1C" blood test.

 

It is used to check the 3 month blood-sugar values of diabetics.

 

 

Would be interesting to hear from the doctors on the forum IF this test has any significance for a NON-diabetic ....

[ChrisF]

I would recommend getting a blood test done and get your blood sugar levels checked. The cravines for sugar could well be an early sign of diabetes

 

I had no sugar cravings prior to my diabetis diagnoses ... but I went to the loo every 20 minutes ....

 

 

Other than the regular (excessive) urinating I had no other visible signs of diabetes.  Not even a normal medical 4 months prior picked up any issues ....

 

 

May be time for the OP to go for a annual, with some attention towards the sugar cravings.  Good idea for all of us as the years tick by ....

[arendoog]

U R a sugar addict like the rest of humanity

[V12man]

 

 

Would be interesting to hear from the doctors on the forum IF this test has any significance for a NON-diabetic ....

It gives an indication of your average blood glucose level over the past several months - BUT it's an average... ( and lots can hide in the average - the average of 2 and 10 is 6 as is the average of 5 and 7. If those were glucose levels (in a certain sense) then the first would be a diabetic and the second normal - hba1c shows them both normal and thats not the case... more important to the average individual is the variability of their glucose levels... and an hba1c test doesn't show that.. not a great diagnostic test in my opinion - plenty of badly controlled diabetics have pretty good hba1c numbers... but have had multiple life threatening hyper and hypo incidents during the supposed measurement period for it.

Basically it's good for something and terrible for a lot of things - a glucose tolerance test is a much better test for diagnostic purposes - as is a simple urinary glucose stick test - they basically need to be done in combination to be definitive.

[V12man]

I had no sugar cravings prior to my diabetis diagnoses ... but I went to the loo every 20 minutes ....

 

 

Other than the regular (excessive) urinating I had no other visible signs of diabetes. Not even a normal medical 4 months prior picked up any issues ....

 

 

May be time for the OP to go for a annual, with some attention towards the sugar cravings. Good idea for all of us as the years tick by ....

You wouldn't have had a craving because you were high... thus the urination frequency - but stop eating for long enough and you might display some cravings (you might not - its fairly individualised)

[Runbikeswim]

diabetes and tooth decay

The diabetes part is not true... its a common misconception.

 

People who eat lots of sugar are more likely to he overweight and thus develop various other sickness such as diabetes.

 

As for tooth decay, thats where brush, floss and mouth was comes in.

 

 

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[Runbikeswim]

I would recommend getting a blood test done and get your blood sugar levels checked. The cravings for sugar could well be an early sign of diabetes

Other type than discovery ones? As those are always pefect

 

 

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[ChrisF]

It gives an indication of your average blood glucose level over the past several months - BUT it's an average... ( and lots can hide in the average - the average of 2 and 10 is 6 as is the average of 5 and 7. If those were glucose levels (in a certain sense) then the first would be a diabetic and the second normal - hba1c shows them both normal and thats not the case... more important to the average individual is the variability of their glucose levels... and an hba1c test doesn't show that.. not a great diagnostic test in my opinion - plenty of badly controlled diabetics have pretty good hba1c numbers... but have had multiple life threatening hyper and hypo incidents during the supposed measurement period for it.

 

Basically it's good for something and terrible for a lot of things - a glucose tolerance test is a much better test for diagnostic purposes - as is a simple urinary glucose stick test - they basically need to be done in combination to be definitive.

 

Thank you.

 

Now it makes more sense why my doc always asks if I had any "low" experiences (none for the last 15 months).  No lows, and a good HBA1C reading should then be a good thing.  (?)

[ChrisF]

You wouldn't have had a craving because you were high... thus the urination frequency - but stop eating for long enough and you might display some cravings (you might not - its fairly individualised)

 

all my values are testing good (had yet another set of fasting full blood work done last month), lost the excess weight, but darned if the urinary frequency will reduce ..... 

[shaper]

Other type than discovery ones? As those are always pefect

 

 

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Yes other than a discovery health check, go to your GP and ask for a blood test which gets sent to a lab, results back after a few days.  Also as V12man says have a glucose tolerance test done.

 

Discuss with your GP your cravings for sugar.

[Letum911]

I can't deny that I have sugar cravings, but I've always had a sweet tooth. Would have something sweet on a daily basis since about age 14. However I never put on unnecessary weight (I was actually under weight for a fair amount of time), but from about age 24 (I'm 27 now), I found that I put on a bit of a "boepie" which is purely sugar driven (I am 1.86m tall and weigh on average around 84kg's if I'm not training), if I drop the sugar for 2 weeks I can see a significant drop in "boepie" size. My family has no history of diabetes or other pancreatic diseases.

 

So for me I reckon the weight and the fat percentage is the biggest worry.