[cactusplant7374]

Boba can be part of a healthy diet and lifestyle.

[Spivak]

Jesus HN, it's a sweet drink. Y'all act like nobody eats cookies, candy, ice cream. Happy Birthday here's your kale salad.

The "ate like shit your whole life and are now overcorrecting in your 40s because you got consequences for the first time" energy is big in this thread.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

So can smoking

[cactusplant7374]

No it can't. Type 2 diabetes is mostly genetic. I can eat as much Boba as I want and not get diabetes.

[paulryanrogers]

Source on type 2 being mostly genetic? All I've found is there is some link but not conclusive.

Also T2 is on the rise in young people. Have their genetics changed dramatically in the past few decades? Or has food?

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/data-research/research/young-pe...

[cogman10]

So interestingly it could be the two working together [1] [2]. T2 may be on the rise partially to epigenetic changes.

[1] https://www.thediabetescouncil.com/link-epigenetics-type-2-d...

[2] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10258626/

[bpodgursky]

This is a simplification. Type 2 diabetes is heavily polygenic, but the genetic connection could be... you are genetically predisposed to like sweet food! In which case, the diet intervention would work, most people just aren't willing to do it.

Many genetic predispositions are behavioral, it's not all pure metabolic effects.

[jahewson]

lol no

[cactusplant7374]

It's true. My mother has been obese for most of her life but isn't even pre-diabetic. Her diet would scare people on HN.

[hombre_fatal]

Yeah, your proclivity to overeat is highly genetic, and your predisposition to get T2 diabetes in an energy surplus is highly genetic.

We like to think that our (positive) behavior comes from our own self-made character traits rather behavior that is genetically determined.