What are your thoughts?
I suspect ingesting high volumes of Mountain Dew and other sugary caffeinated drinks might have more to do with the higher incidence of diabetes than simply staying up overnight.
Having voiced my suspicion, I like that the problem is linked mostly to sleep-deprivation. Usually when I pull an all-nighter, I sleep the following day away.
Yeah, I’ll sleep the next day too.
I don’t think they realize how much crap gamers can consume while participating in an all nighter.
Energy drinks and all that crap will be the most common reason why gamers WOULD be at higher risk to diabetes.
Yup, likely as a result of all that high fructose corn syrup that’s being pumped into fucking everything now too.
This is why I cook my own breakfast food and drink sugar base sodas rarely instead of the corn syrup crap.
Plus, sugar based sodas taste better =D
The placement of this thread feels like a Valve-quality scripted event. Goodnight, everybody. Hope I don’t get diabetes. 
High sugar foods don’t cause type 2 diabetes (or type 1 for that matter, but that’s a totally different thing).
Being overweight and lethargic causes type 2. Obviously, eating a lot of sugar can cause that, but that’s about as far as the link goes. The sugar doesn’t really come into play directly until after they have diabetes.
I’m an architecture student. Shit.
Don’t be like this dude:
Seems to be a lot of confusion about correlation and causation goin’ on.
and carbs which turn into sugar.
^^^
This
I don’t think I could pull an all nighter if I wanted to anymore. Last one was a Heroes of Might and Magic hotseat scenario, and by 10AM I just fell over and passed out.
Of course, that could have to do with over 12 hours of HoMM rather than simply staying up all night.
Correct.
I can pull all nighters+the day after if I stay active (camping next to a fire, walking around looking for wood otherwise its gonna get cold etc) but when I’m next to my bed, in my room, I’d rather go to sleep than stay up later than 4am.
I’m more worried about those who can’t separate a night full of headshots on a moniter and real life…
what about college students who spend all nighters studying? Or people who spend all night working? Why teenagers who spend all night playing videogames?
Fucking news.
That’s a really good point.