Does eating too many carbs lead to diabetes?

people fail to recognize that fats/genetics is what causes diabetes in most cases, not sugars or carbs. read up on it!

Sorry, but with all due respect you are misinformed. Fats do not cause an increase in blood sugar or insulin. Type 1 Diabetes is genetic. Type 2 is caused by diet and lifestyle.

From someone who just spent the past 3 years working with my mother's doctors and learning everything I could about Diabetes, I can comment on this question with some level of knowledge.
When you eat carbs, they are broken down into sugar in your body. Insulin is required to process that sugar and further break it down where your body can use it for fuel. If the sugar doesn't get broken down, it crystalizes and makes its way thru your blood stream and organs like tiny shards of glass, cutting and scraping as it goes thru, leaving scarring in its place.

The amount of carbs you eat and the rate those carbs break down in your body, determines the rate that your blood sugar level rises, and how much insulin is needed to break down the sugar. Repeated high amounts of sugar in your blood stresses your pancreas by forcing it to release higher and higher amounts of insulin. At some point, your body will become insulin resistant, and your pancreas can no longer provide enough insulin to break down the sugar in your system. At what level your body will get to this point, can be based on many factors, including genetics, and activity levels.

People who have a certain body type, a higher BF%, and are more sedentary, can reach the level of insulin resistance quicker than others may reach that point. So some people can get away with eating higher amounts of carbs and sugars for quite a while, but eventually if they continue to over stress their insulin system, they are at risk of developing Diabetes.

Eating higher fiber carbs can slow down the breakdown into sugar, allowing more time for the pancreas to release the insulin in lower amounts. Exercise is also very beneficial in preventing Diabetes.

It is very important to get your sugar levels checked regularly, and if your doctor is concerned with your number being too high, then immediately change your eating habits. It is not just a "little high sugar" that you can simply take a pill and all will be fine.
Pills turn into shots, and shots turn into more shots, and that turns into kidney failure, and dialysis, and after years of ignoring your doctor's advice, your family gets to watch you die a slow and painful death.

So does eating too many carbs lead to Diabetes? The answer is YES. The question is just HOW many carbs are too many for YOU.

This is about Type 2 Diabetes, NOT Type 1, which is an inherited disease that is not caused by diet.

Being a diabetic that I had a genetic predisposition for and a nurse, I will let you in on a few things I know. To correct one thing I read, carbs that are not broken down as far as I know, don't scar organs. When you have diabetes, sugars are trapped in the blood in high amounts. The cells aren't absorbing sugar properly, and that’s why a diabetic may feel hungry and lack energy much of the time. The body cells are crying out for nourishment despite having sugar all around them. It’s easy for a person with diabetes to overeat in response to these “hunger feelings” and gain weight. This weight gain, especially when the weight is held in the belly area, actually predisposes a person to diabetes and makes it harder to control because it increases insulin resistance. Insulin works like a chemical key to open pores in the cell wall. It’s the job of insulin to open this cell “door” so that the nutrients in the food eaten can pass from the blood into the cell and be burned for energy or used for growth and repair. Insulin is normally released by the pancreas every time blood sugars begin to rise. Diabetes occurs when a person is no longer able to produce enough insulin or the insulin that is produced is ineffective in delivering blood sugars into the cell. The kind of carbs a diabetic eats is important, and need to lean toward the low glycemic index carbs. You can look this up on the internet to get a better idea of what they are. In response to your question, a sedentary lifestyle, and years of eating diets loaded with sugar, refined carbohydrates, and unhealthy fats (animal and trans-fats), causes weight gain, especially in the belly. This accumulated fat may simply gum up the doors to the cells. This puts so much pressure on the pancreas that it wears out prematurely. The pancreas has been working overtime, probably for many years, making extra insulin to keep the sugars down. It’s only after the pancreas tires and begins to slow down, a condition called "insulin fatigue," that blood sugars begin to rise and diabetes is diagnosed. I hope this helps not only you but others to better understand the correlation between carbs and diabetes. There are so many out there that I think want to understand it, but for whatever reason, don't. Maybe this will clear up a lot of misconceptions.

Obesity is central to diabetes and certainly one of the biggest factors, it's not carbs per se

Or is that just a myth?