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Message: <blockquote data-quote="peter_s" data-source="post: 391343" data-attributes="member: 31798"><p>Yes, I was disappointed when diabetes.co.uk chose to repeat the same old rubbish about lifestyles. I posted about it a week or so ago, with surprisingly few responses; maybe adverse comments are edited out. It's at <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=41760" target="_blank">viewtopic.php?f=25&t=41760</a>. In my case, diabetes is genetic, definitely diagnosed that way. In a country with better diagnostic techniques, I would never have progressed to Diabetes. It's easy here, when doctors can stir up the press yet again, with "It's all their own fault, I don't know why we treat them". I know seriously overweight people who are not Diabetic, and diabetics who are very thin, so as a theory, weight does not equal diabetes. The magazine Scientific American had a very good article about disease inheritance a few years ago. Basically, if you have the genes, you may not develop a problem if nothing triggers it. If you don't have the genes, you won't get the problem whatever you do. In an earlier generation, my great uncle became diabetic as a result of losing a foot in WW1. In those days, everyone knew that diabetes could be started that way, i.e. traumatic shock. Now, it never gets a mention, it's just booze and fat that causes diabetes.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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