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Hi,
Just eating carbs is not going to make you get Type 2 Diabetes. The main risk factors for developing type 2 are central obesity, BMI >25, physical inactivity, and family history in parents or sibs. The best way to prevent this since family history is important, is to keep at a healthy weight. Only 10% of people who develop Type 2 are thin. Type 1 is caused primarily by an autoimmune reaction that destroys the B islet cells of the pancreas. In this case, you would have to take insulin to live, and eating carbs now certainly would not bring it on. What was your fasting plasma glucose or oral glucose tolerance test? If it was in fact a little high, you might be on the borderline of insulin resistance, the perfect time to get it under control with exercise and healthy diet. You probably would not have to start worrying about carb units and all until much later. But getting them in the form of lower glycemic index foods like rice and more whole grains would be helpful for sustained release instead of a glucose surge after meals. (We are doing endocrinology and nutrition right now and actually Diabetes the last 2 days, so that is a little UNC Med knowledge for everyone)

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