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by partyboat1586
2217 days ago
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How do you explain slim people in the west getting type 2 diabetes? While it is associated with obesity it happens to slimmer folk too. They are not consuming too many calories which would imply its related to the kinds of food they are eating. |
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Because, like most things, genetics and environmental factors do play a part, even if it's a small part.
There was an article recently on the front page of a founder of an AI company finding out that he has cancer throughout his body and a massive blood clot next to his heart.
He was super fit and had a very low resting BP, and no previous signs of any of this. Complete surprise to him.
However, this is not the norm, and neither is otherwise healthy people suddenly waking up to find they have T2D. There is conclusive evidence that key factors (like weight gain, visceral fat etc) play in severely increasing the risk of T2D.
I understand and I'm opposed to things like fat shaming, especially in light of people actually having hormonal issues that they struggle to control. It makes no sense to point out these people as problem actors because they didn't bring it upon themselves.
But I know for a fact, witnessing myself how people gorge on junk food and massively sugary starbucks drinks around me, that no, a good portion of those fat people have no hormonal problems - they're fat because of terrible lifestyle choices, and put themselves at risk not just of T2D, but of every other problem from head to toe.
Half the country doesn't get declared "obese" because of some mysterious disease that is genetically passed on from their parents or grandparents. They get declared obese because mega corps en large advertise and sell them shit to eat from a very young age, and parents find it hard to eat healthy themselves.