Re: Can normal weight people get type 2 diabetes?

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Dr. Beckwith is a young FP in rural Maryland

He graduated UT Galveston in 1995

His knowledge of diabetes is a bit rudimentary, but better than many 
older FP's and Internists

To the group:   Give him a try - maybe he will learn something here.  He 
has the interest to try to help, and we should ALWAYS welcome potential 
resources.  Remember, he is no where near any teaching hospital, and 
relitivly inexperienced, so cut him a LITTLE slack.

To Dr Beckwith:  This is a fractious group of ALL types of diabetics. 
Heavy on born again low-carbers, a seasoning of "animal Insulin only", a 
few total freaks (doe the Watchtroll, Mano the Indian hater, "Dr. Jai" 
the phony indian, etc.) and we beat off a steady stream of Aspartame 
Trolls, BioDeath Merchants, Noni scammers, Stevia Pushers, Herb 
Chompers, and the like.  Many of us know quite a bit about our 
condition.  AND, much of what you read in books is WRONG.  Many of us 
were fighting diabetes before you had ever heard of it, and we are still 
here.

One warning - If you keep cross posting, we will blow you off of the 
internet.  An occasional message, an answer to a crossposted message, 
but do NOT crosspost original messages - If you think we can't get your 
email account pulled - keep it up.

Matt Beckwith wrote:
> Matti Narkia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
>
>
> > My question is: Can normal weight people also get type 2 diabetes?
>
>
> The conventional wisdom is that the cause of diabetes is three-fold:
> 1. Obesity
> 2. A genetic predisposition to insulin resistance
> 3. A genetic predisposition to pancreatic insufficiency
>
> If your genetic predisposition to insulin resistance and pancreatic
> insufficiency is sufficiently great, theoretically you could develop
> diabetes without being obese.
>
> But for the most part, I tell my patients who have a positive family
> history of diabetes but are not overweight, you're very unlikely to
> get it so don't worry about it.  And I tell my patients who are obese
> and have no family history, you could easily develop diabetes if you
> don't lose weight.
>
> Matthew G. Beckwith, M.D.
> http://drbeckwith.com