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A Genetic Link Connecting Diabetes And Obesity
All the reasons for what causes diabetes are not fully understood yet. There are certainly risk factors that make it more likely that you will be diagnosed with the disease. The one and only risk factors that you have the most control over is your weight.
All the reasons for what causes diabetes are not fully understood yet. There are certainly risk factors that make it more likely that you will be diagnosed with the disease. The one and only risk factors that you have the most control over is your weight.
If you are obese or even just a few pounds overweight, you can increase your health and lessen the chances of diabetes is to lose weight. Even in small amount a little at a time, when you lose the pounds you increase your health!
This is easy to say but may be harder to do. Resent studies are now showing there is a genetic factor affecting people who are obese with diabetes.
This genetic malfunction affects how the bodies use energy and insulin - two key elements in the functioning of your body and the cause of diabetes and obesity.
The studies also state that this is not a cause and effect case. If you carry this defective gene you are not guaranteed to be obese or have diabetes. But the link is there and it can be prevented.
You will have to work at it harder than others to achive or maintain a healthy body and put off diabetes but it will be doable. Talk to your doctor about options and how to prevent or put-off the onset of diabetes.
The gene that researchers have just resently discovered yo be s a precursor to diabetes has also been found in young children. It is frightening that children in their preschool years are being diagnosed with obesity and type 2 diabetes due to genetics of their bodys.
Aware parents can reduce or even prevent these horrible things from happening to your kids, by giving their children healthy food and lifestyle choices. Now that a DNA connection has been found for obesity, the research can focus on finding a way to prevent or even fix this from happening.
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