Diabetes speedrun

This made me think of something that happened to a good friend of mine. He’s in his 50s and is one of the most healthy people I know in terms of diet and exercise.

He went to the doctor the other for a checkup. His doctor made an off the cuff remark about his cholesterol levels being normal, which was fine for a regular person by maybe a little concerning for a person with diabetes.

My friend was like “what do you mean for a person with diabetes?” and the doc responded “You didn’t know you had diabetes?”

They went through my friend’s diet to see what could be the cause. The conversation went like this:

Doc: Do you drink sugary drinks like soda?

Friend: Never.

Doc: What do you eat in a typical day?

Friend: Mostly rice and spinach. And beans too. Honestly I many days I forget to eat.

Doc: This doesn’t really check out. Are you sure there’s nothing else you’re eating or drinking?

Friend: Oh… I also usually drink about a gallon of orange juice a day.

So yeah … that’s the story of how my supposedly healthy friend gave himself diabetes by drinking a metric fuckton of OJ.

Oh. Will I get diabetes from Lipton peach ice tea?

That depends. How many gallons would you say you drink a day?

I don’t know about gallons but 1.5 liters

That’s a beetus

That’s about 87 grams of sugar, which is about 3 times the recommended sugar daily intake for an adult male. Which roughly translates to, as bollybing put it, a beetus.

The packaging writes 0g per 250ml, they use artificial sweeteners in Turkey