[muawiyah]

The "lifestyle component" model confounds "symptoms" with "cause".

There's a 100% correspondence with having the genes. That is, all people with Type II diabetes have the genes. On the other hand, not all people with the genes develop Type II diabetes, and some people with the genes who have developed Type II diabetes, actually turn things around and cease to exhibit symptoms.

Which means that you can avoid Type II diabetes, or at least the most serious consequences, with a highly controlled diet and exercise.

The diet looks very much like that of pre-agricultural human beings ~ big game hunters in fact. The amount of exercise is not out of reason, but is more like that experienced by nomadic hunter/gatherers than modern, sedentary populations.

[Sonora]

So, it follows that diet and exercise will prevent and turnaround Diabetes in a lot of cases and Diabetes has become a problem because people are not watching their diet and exercises. All I'm saying is that fat people are more the norm now and diabetes has become very common. Obviously the gene must have always been there, but lifestyle changes have given the gene a front and center place in society. It's very sad to me. I know a few people with Diabetes - it can be brutal and, of course, life threatening.