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What say you do you believe it is? I believe it absolute contributes to diabetes but I disagree that is the cause. I seen Mark Hyman state in the following article that Obesity was the cause. But if that is the case then how do we explain skinny people that have diabetes?
That article is by someone trying to sell his eBook, which is often not the best source of unbiased information.
If obesity always caused obesity, then everyone obese would also be diabetic, but a lot of obese people are not diabetic. Heredity seems to play a part in both obesity and diabetes.
Also, some of the skinny diabetics are type 1, and obesity is not at all related to type 1 diabetes.
What say you do you believe it is? I believe it absolute contributes to diabetes but I disagree that is the cause. I seen Mark Hyman state in the following article that Obesity was the cause. But if that is the case then how do we explain skinny people that have diabetes?
"Type 2 diabetes" is a collective term they use for everyone who isn't a Type 1 and has high blood sugar. Many of us have nothing else in common EXCEPT the higher than normal blood sugar. My personal belief is that "Type 2" is a condition that results from something else wrong in the body - it is basically a hormone issue. I believe mine was caused from a lifetime of physical and emotional stress, too much cortisol definitely raises blood sugar, as does lack of sleep. I was never overweight, my sister was ALWAYS overweight and has normal blood sugar. Also, some people can run high numbers for years and years and never develop problems, while others with far lower numbers have multiple issues.
Bottom line is doctors don't really understand the whys and causes of it all and have to lump us all into one category (my own doctor admitted this) and the only thing they know to do is dispense drugs and bring the A1c down. Weight shows some correlation but not cause when it comes to blood sugar.
I was diagnosed with type II diabetes right before my 20th birthday. At the time I was at college on a track scholarship, I ran 3-5 miles daily and had less than 15% body fat. My father and my six brothers, along with every male relative on my father's father's side of the family had diabetes for as long as we could trace it back. My generation was pretty young when we were diagnosed, previous generations probably had it eariler than it was found. My generation, now all middle aged, have a range of weight, with those of us also blessed with ulcerative colitis generally underweight. In the eariler generations they seemed to either be obese or underweight by the time they reached middle age, nobody was inbetween or at a normal weight. And, FYI, the underweight ones died at younger age than the obese ones.
So no, I don't think obesity cause diabetes. There are some researchers who now believe diabetes causes obesity, not the other way around. I highly suspect there are different types of diabetes II.
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