I get VERY cross with those who say its a lifestyle choice, yes, in about 50%, but in the rest IF you choose your parents I guess it is, but if you do not, your parent and grand parent had it and were NOT overweight grew all their own foods, nor ate fats and sugar, I would guess, as our doctor says, that its hereditary.
How about the lady up the road, about 5'10", size 0 and weighed using pocket drug scales, yet now diabetic.
So please what lifestyle changes would be suggested?
Absolute bxxxxxxs, yes it is possible to exacerbate the problem, yes some people are pushed over the edge, but please DO NOT assume that all cases of type 2 are through bad lifestyle, they are not.
In fact there are some schools of thought that say that certain wheat (hard wheat red and white, not soft red and white) being eaten through our lives cause it. That has certainly as much credence or possibly more than the "lifestyle" thing.
As an aside, I avoid all hard wheat (Weetibix for example is made from soft wheat they KNOW something as did Ryvita they knew something!) eat Oats, rye, Durham, rice. Milk in quantity gives me a problem, cheese and fromage frais does not so I guess its in the wey, rarely eat potatoes, eat copious veggies of all sorts. Blended whisky knocks me out, just one glass, yet malt OK, 1664 knocks me out (cheap wheat (hard), yet Export 33 I can drink in quantity (malted barley). Cheap wines also knock me out!!! I have been told by "informed" sources that certain wineries "improve" the wine by dumping cheap (read hard) wheat in the brew. Lidl ice cream knocks me out another supplier does not! My cholesterol is about 2, thats all, HDL and LDL together.
So
A/ we are not all the same, B/ is hard cheap wheat the real killer.