Originally Posted by
mprelaw
People have to be educated to the fact that Type 1 diabetes is a genetic auto-immune system disorder, and has nothing to do with lifestyle.
Even Type 2 has a genetic component. My mother ate well and was rail thin her entire adult life, and still developed Type 2 in her 60s. There's a genetic component there, too, and it strikes about half of every generation on my mother's side of the family. My grandmother was never fat, and she was a diabetic. My mom and two of her siblings were, and I am too.
I do know about it, my wife's entire family was wiped out by it, my wife actually knows who to blame for it, because it showed up in one generation, and has continued ever since. The problem is that Type 2 has gone from a fairly rare disease, primarily of those over 50 to a major epidemic, an increase that has come primarily in the last 50 years, as obesity rates have climbed.