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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BarbaraG" data-source="post: 2689236" data-attributes="member: 47277">It doesn’t assume all T2’s are fat.  He gives examples of people who had BMI’s in the normal range, with T2 - who were found to also have fat deposited within their liver and pancreas.  He suggested they try losing some weight (about 10%) and the diabetes resolved.As a result of this, he now talks about a ”personal fat threshold”, which if you exceed it, will allow T2 to develop if you are susceptible.  He explains that it’s not about BMI, or whether you are fatter than other people. It’s whether you are carrying too much fat for YOUR body.One beef I have with his material is that he talks repeatedly about people who have gained weight over their adult life, and if they revert to the weight they were at 21 or 25, they wouldn’t develop T2D.  Gaining weight gradually as you age is a common pattern, to be sure.  But it’s not the only one. I’ve been overweight since the age of 8 and obese since my teens, with an exception of a period of less than a year in my early twenties.</blockquote>

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