Disagree. My mother had Type 2 diabetes; she was overweight and a classic apple shape, with the weight in her belly. I'm 51. I restrict my carbs, but other than that I eat what I want and I don't diet. I am not overweight, and I have a small waist instead of my mom's apple shape.
“Disagree. My mother had Type 2 diabetes; she was overweight and a classic apple shape, with the weight in her belly. I’m 51. I restrict my carbs, but other than that I eat what I want and I don’t diet. I am not overweight, and I have a small waist instead of my mom’s apple shape.”
You have a completely wrong view of how this diabetes works. First, there are many different causes of Type I and Type II diabetes. Among those people with Type II diabetes, only some of those people will have a certain type of auto-immune disorder that we are talking about in this case. Second, the child of a parent who has this particular inheritable auto-immune disorder do not develop the symptoms. Consequently, it is to be expected that you will not develop the disorder. Instead, the disorder skips a generation, so it is the grandchildren who develop the symptoms of this disorder by inheritance. So, in your particular case, it depends on whether or not you inherited the gene/s for this particular sub-type of diabetes as to whether or not some of your children, the grandchildren of your mother, will develop this sub-type of diabetes.
The exception to the skipping of a generation when developing diabetes of this sub-type occurs in a couple of ways. In some families, the sub-type of this diabetes can be inherited through the paternal and maternal ancestry. Consequently, there can arise a situation where the children inherit the paternal gene/s for this sub-type of diabetes, while it is the grandchildren who inherit the maternal gene/s for this sub-type of diabetes or another sub-type of diabetes. You can also see a circumstance where the life-style of the family is influenced by a person in the family which results in another type of diabetes which is not the same as the sub-type we are discussing here. in the end, it appears that the diabetes has not skipped generations, when in fact the sub-type which does skip generations has done so while the other diabetes occurs in the same and/or next generation.