It’s a Lifestyle Disease…

That’s how Type 2 diabetes is positioned in people’s mind.

All you have to do is lose weight, or exercise, or not get old, or don’t be Latino or African American or Polynesian…

In fact, we “don’t fully understand why some people develop type 2 diabetes and others don’t.” There is a list of risk factors that is accepted. But here’s the thing, they are risk factors, not causes. And some of them (age, race/ethnicity, family health history) can’t be changed or “managed.”