How do you get type 1 diabetes?

Like, is it something you can get from eating high sugar foods or something? How?

Type 1 can have several causes. You can be born with it and that does happen but it's not the only cause. Type 1 is an autoimmune disorder. It is mainly caused when the body basically attacks itself, destroying the cells that produce insulin. When the pancreas no longer secretes insulin, your body is not able to metabolize sugar, which is vital for energy. The glucose can build up to toxic levels in the body, causing severe damage and in some cases, death. Type 1s must take insulin to survive.

There are other causes...illness, injury, or other diseases that lead to pancreatic failure.

There is no correlation between eating large amounts of sugar and developing type 1 diabetes. There is, however, a STRONG correlation between poor diet and lack of exercise to type 2 diabetes. Type 2s can mostly control it with diet, exercise, oral medications and in some cases, insulin.

I'm a type 1 diabetic. I use an insulin pump, which constantly infuses me with the insulin I need to live. My diabetes is the result of a traumatic injury that I suffered in a car accident many years ago. C'est la vie.

I hope this answers your question.

EMT

Let me add this real quick...roughly80-90% of diabetics are type 2. The remaining roughly 10% of diabetics are type 1 (per the ADA). There has been an increase in recent years of type 2 showing up more in children. This is largely due to children leading a more sedentary lifestyle. The third type of diabetes is gestational. This occurs in pregnancy and for the most part, goes away after delivery. Women who develop gestational diabetes are at much higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes later in life.

Type 1, you are born with.
Type 2 you develop later, possibly from poor diet.
You don't get Type 1 diabetes - you're born with it. You can develop Type 2 diabetes, by eating too many sugary foods, and having health problems that affect your pancreas. I myself was diagnosed diabetic 4 years ago, so I understand this better than most. Being obese (overweight) also affects diabetes, and the more obese you are, the worse your diabetes can become - to the point of loss of eyesight, loss of limbs, coma, and even death.
Father Wolffe, Rev.
NO, not from eating sugar.

First you're born with genes for it. Then something turns the genes on and an autoimmune process starts which destroys the cells in the pancreas that make insulin. Without insulin, blood sugar stays in the blood and no nutrients get into the cells, which starve.
You then become dehydrated, urinate a lot, become very fatigued, usually lose weight, and if you don't get insulin, you go into a coma and die.

We do not know what turns the genes on. Many studies are being conducted to try to figure that out. Some suspects are cow's milk given too early/cow's milk formula, or a virus.
diabetes comes from the pancreas,it dosent come from eating sugar.this is how it is ,the pancreas dosent make insulin at all, so insulin injection needs to be taken everyday so the blood sugar is control .i know this cause my 11 year old son have it. diabetes comes from genes, from family. type 1 is not easy to control, theres medication for it like pills or injection.so it comes from the pancreas wich dosent make no insulin.
The IDDM that usually attacks people when they are young, previously called juvenile DM, is usually considered to be an auto immune disease related to genetics.