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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roytaylorjasonfunglover" data-source="post: 992156" data-attributes="member: 166184">I agree that all those factors you mentioned play a role, and people live in reallife, not a perfect ideal world full of unlimited time and perfect knowledge.In my mind genetics play a very large factor and I think those twinstudies show that. If you do not have "bad" diabetes genetics you will not get it, however large you may be, but if you got the genes, diabetes will by triggered by having to much of the wrong kind of bodyfat.As you rightfully point out, most obese people do not have diabetes, but they are lucky with the genes. And you have slim t2s, a lot of them btw, but many of them have a very high bodyfat percentage%, even though they their bmi is well within the normal range.So yeah still in my opinion weightloss is by far the most important thing you could do to diabetes. Sleep plays a big role, as do exercise, but bodyfat is a lot more important than those factors.Look at this stunning example of twins, the one who lost weight does not have diabetes, the one that still maintained his excess bodyfat still has diabetes.And if you read it closely the only difference in weight was 20 pounds, when the diabetic twin got diagnosed, and the non-diabetic lost some more just to be safe.<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122104219" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122104219</a></blockquote>

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