MYTH: Eating too much sugar causes diabetes
誤解：吃太多糖會得糖尿病

FACT: Both types of diabetes are caused by a mix of genetics and environmental factors, but a sugary diet cannot directly cause it (alone).
事實：兩種類型的糖尿病都是由基因和環境因素綜合導致的，但是單單是多糖飲食并不會直接導致糖尿病。

"Eating sugar does not cause diabetes; it’s a complicated problem involving your pancreas and metabolism," Dr. Haythe said. "When you have diabetes, you don't produce enough insulin. Insulin helps the glucose get absorbed into your bloodstream and liver as usable energy."
海耶斯博士說：“吃糖不會導致糖尿病；糖尿病是涉及胰腺和代謝功能的復雜病癥。如果你有糖尿病，你的身體就不能分泌足夠的胰島素。胰島素能幫助葡萄糖被血液和肝臟吸收，從而轉化成可被利用的能量。”

You are more likely to develop diabetes if you are overweight or obese, because extra fat can lead to insulin resistance, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive Kidney Diseases. This makes a diet heavy in sugar an indirect, rather than a direct cause of type 2 diabetes.
據美國國立糖尿病、消化和腎臟疾病研究所稱，如果你超重或肥胖，你患上糖尿病的可能性更大，因為多余的脂肪會引發胰島素抵抗。這使得多糖飲食成為導致ll型糖尿病的間接而非直接的原因。