Can a person who never eats sweets and doesn't drink anything but water get diabetes if they eat candy once?

YOU do not get diabetes from eating to much sugar!!! You develop diabetes when your pancreas stops producing enough insulin to break down the sugar in your blood system. The sugar in your system comes from not only things like candy and sodas but carbohydrates break down into glucose which is sugar. So no eating candy will not if you eat a healthy diet cause diabetes.

no Sugar has nothing to do with it it is you body ability to burn the Sugar

Sorry you are suffering from a popular myth that diabetes is cause by to much sugar in your diet and the other one almost as popular that you get diabetes if you are overweight. Diabetes is caused by a lack of insulin in the body (type 1) or by the body's inability to use the insulin (type 2) both forms tend to run in families. Also I bet you eat sugar in one of it's many forms as it is found in fruits (fructose) milk(lactose)as well as numerous other things. You say you want to try a sip of Diet Dr Pepper Cherry Vanilla well as this is a DIET soda it is more likely to contain saccharin rather than sugar so it is not relevant to the question. The answer is NO you could not develop diabetes from eating candy once c Retired nurse/diabetic

NO!!!

You can get diabetes from over eating in general. If you eat a ton of bread, carbohydrates in general along with too much protein and what have you. You don't need to eat actual sugar to give yourself diabetes. In your digestive system everything other then vitamins and water is generally broken down to the same thing, simple sugars. And when there is too much of the converting going on, you begin to develop diabetes when your body gets sick and tired of converting simple sugars.

allot of foods have sugar in them, even if it isn't candy or soda it has sugar in it....and diabetes is caused more by your genes then it is by your sugar intake. if you have allot of diabetes in your family, then even if you never eat any sugar you could still become a diabetic. but to answer your question-a little bit of sugar will not make you become a diabetic. becoming a diabetic happens after years of sugar abuse, not one sip of soda. have fun!

sometimes its heriditary, sometimes it comes from being overweight. I developed it at age 43. I now take insulin injections 3-4 times a day, plus 1 tablet. But too much sugar isnt what causes it, its the the pancreas not being able to make enough insulin, or the cells of your body not being able to absorb the insulin. I tell you this though, it suks.

i'll settle one thing here at the start!!! u CANT get diabetes from eating too much sugar or lollies. sugar as in the food form has nothing to do with getting diabetes as your body burns it up to make energy. all of the foods u put in your mouth have a form of sugar in them. even the ones u'd never think have them as they dont taste sweet. u can never get diabetes from eating too much sugar or eating too little. its usually to do with your body or genetics. people who are obese may have a high risk of getting diabetes. the diet drinks have a different type of sugar in them from the usual stuff you are thinking of. if u look at the way normal sugar is made up- the helix goes clockwise so is accepted by the body and turned into engery. the artificial sort- the helix is anti-clockwise so the body doesnt see it as food or energy so processes it as a waste product if i was worried about anything in those sort of drinks it would be the caffiene but a sip wont hurt hope this helps (and i havent confused you at any point)