It seems to me that although weight has an input on diabetes, maybe we should just accept that diabetes is unique to each person. Take me for instance.. I am 20 years old, 5'11, 10st6, diagnosed at 17. I was diagnosed initially with type 2 diabetes, started on insulin. A month later I was told I didn't need insulin, just metformin and glicazide, and maybe I had a new type of diabetes - type 3.
Upon moving to a new town, new hospital, new team, they decided to test me for yet another type of diabetes, known as MODY or Maturity Onset Diabetes in the Young for those that haven't come accross it. I am still waiting for the results, but if it is MODY I then have to find out which strain I have, and who else in my family have it, because MODY diabetics have a 50% chance of passing the MODY gene to their child.
So, do you have to be obese to get Type 2 diabetes? No.
Do you have to be young to get Type 1 diabetes? Not Always
Do you have to be young to be diagnosed MODY? No. Because if I do have MODY, Mum will need to be tested - my mum is now 43 - too young to have MODY in most peoples mind..
Don't worry about stigmas attatched to diabetes or weight. Some people are big boned, some people have thyroid problems, some people have eating disorders. Diabetes isn't a fussy beast, it doesn't hand pick certain people. Everyone has a chane of getting diabetes whether they are the healthiest or indeed unhealthiest person in the world.
Matt