Ryu...

Well...first off let's clear up some confusion on what produces insulin. It's your pancreas, not carbs or sugar. ANY food will cause your pancreas to produce insulin if your pancreas is still functioning, but carbohydrates and refined sugars will cause it to produce larger amounts (not a good thing!). As a matter of fact, your pancres will produce insulin even if you eat no food at all...just smaller amounts. High amounts of insulin in your blood stream on a long-term basis will cause a condition known as insulin resistance where the cells of your body become immune to the effects of insulin and your pancreas has to produce more and more to do the job it once did with less. This is the beginning of the downward spiral towards diabetes because as your pancreas has to work harder and harder the cells in your pancreas that produce insulin (called the beta cells) begin to burn out and stop producing it. As this process continues, eventually you will get to a point where your pancreas can no longer produce enough insulin for the sugar (called blood glucose) to get from your blood into your cells where it is needed and blood sugars begin to rise. Now you have full-blown diabetes. Once beta cells are burned out, there is very little chance that your body will make more, so once you have diabetes it's not curable. It IS manageable with a low carb diet, however, because you are not giving your body foods that break down into sugar which your body can no longer use (not enough, insulin, remember?) or are giving it so much less carb that the pancreas can handle the challenge again. A low carb diet can also prevent diabetes because it does not make the pancreas work so hard producing insulin to cover all the carbs and sugar and so keeps the beta cells in your pancreas from burning out. So....to sum it all up, your pancreas will produce insulin whether you eat a lot of carbs and sugar or not, but it will produce a lot less which is really a good thing because you are not overworking it. Sorry this is so long, but I wanted to give you a good explanation that I hope you understand.