Just One More Bite!!

Why is it that diabetics are constantly hungry? My daughter thinks she needs to eat all day and often times, finds herself constantly thinking about food. It's already unfair that diabetics can't eat like the rest of the worls, but then they get stuck with obsessing about food all day too!

Recent studies show that higher sugar levels will cause unecesary hunger. The body gets confused in that it thinks it needs more food when that'a the farthest thing you need right? Kidney-Cares.org said that you can help manage ot by doing theese three tricks:

How to manage constant hunger in Diabetes?
1. Prevent stomach from being empty:
Stomach hunger occurs when diabetic's stomach is empty, even if they have ingested enough calories and nutrients. Therefore, preventing stomach from being empty is very essential. To achieve this purpose, Diabetes patients can eat some foods like raw vegetables, pulpy fruits or grains which can stay in the belly longer. Besides, according to study, these foods take up more space than do sweets, tats and most proteins.
2. Avoid eyeball hunger
Make your food various. Food is not just fuel, but also a major source of pleasure and comfort. With simplex foods, you stomach maybe satisfied, but you may still have a strong desire to eat when you see other kinds of foods. Therefore, try to enrich your food types, not just amount.
3. Eat slowly
Eat slowly and try to drink much more water while eating which will help to full stomach.
Constant hunger is caused by insufficient consumption of blood sugar, so the above management only helps to remit control it, not remove it. If you want to get this symptom removed, helping our body to use blood sugar is essential.


William Lee Dubois, Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, answered

Yes. No. Sort of. Well, ok, here’s the deal. The shinbone’s connected to the thighbone, the thighbone’s connected to the…. Diabetes can cause high blood sugar, and high blood sugar can give you the munchies. So diabetes doesn’t, by itself, make you hungry. It’s the high blood sugar that can come from out-of-control diabetes that does.

Which is crazy, if you think about it. For the most part, the human body does a really great job of maintaining a stable state using a process of small adjustments and counter-adjustments called homeostasis. In the case of blood sugar, the body normally keeps the sugar level just right by balancing little squirts of insulin from the pancreas with little squirts of sugar from the liver. If the liver is running low on its sugar stores your body will give you an advanced head’s up that you need to refuel by sending out hunger signals.
Where things get weird is that if your blood sugar is already high, the last thing you need is more sugar (in the form of food), right? But in fact, high blood sugar does cause hunger, even though you do not need more food. This is caused largely by a miss-communication within the body’s sugar homeostasis system.
Every cell in your body relies on sugar from the blood for food, but they need insulin to get to the sugar. It’s insulin that moves sugar from the blood to the cells. If there is not enough insulin, or if it isn’t working very well, sugar piles up in the blood while at the same time, it’s not getting into the cells where it’s needed.
Being in a state of high blood sugar is sort of like starving to death in the Chef Boyardee warehouse because you don’t have a can opener.
The cells don’t really realize that there is a ton of sugar just beyond their membranes; all they know is that they are not getting any and so they send out the message: let’s eat!

So... Basically, there is eally not a ton of help for feeling so hungry all of the time. Try to do your best in having fluids with you to sip to keep something on your tummy. The higher your sugars are, the more hungry you'll be.

Let's keep on hoping that JDRF finds us a cure for this life threatening disease. I urge you to go to www.JDRF.org if you haven't been there yet. They are a vast resource of knowledge!!!