• @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Exactly. Type 1 is an autoimmune disease and type 2 is a disease caused by obesity and an unhealthy diet, for example.

    • MamboGator
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      1 year ago

      That’s not entirely true. Weight and diet are definitely risk factors, but so are age, genetics and a history of gestational diabetes. The main thing is that your body becomes resistant to insulin for one reason or another, causing hyperglycemia. Whereas with type 1 your body stops making insulin entirely because your immune system destroys the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas, to the same result.

      It’s a common sentiment that those who have type 2 are to blame for it, but I had a professor at university who was rail thin and active and had type 2.