Type 2 diabetes is one of three different forms of diabetes… type 1 diabetes is much less common than type 2 and is usually diagnosed in childhood and treated with insulin. Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition where your body becomes resistant to insulin. Gestational diabetes is similar to type 2 except that it occurs during pregnancy.

In type 2 diabetes too much fat sets the stage for insulin resistance by decreasing your body’s ability to use insulin in the way it was meant to be used. This means two things are going wrong with this process. First, your body is unable to keep up with the demand for large amounts of insulin. Second, because your body has become resistant to the insulin your pancreas makes, you are not able to use that insulin efficiently. Now you have decreased insulin sensitivity and insulin resistance… main features of type 2 diabetes. This means you have glucose or sugar building up in your blood instead of entering your cells via insulin.

Although type 2 diabetes can be prevented, extra fat is the result of taking in more calories or kilojoules than we burn, which means:

• too much food, and
• too little exercise

are the big contributors to type 2 diabetes. Therefore, being overweight or obese is responsible for the rise of type 2 diabetes.

It is interesting to take a step backwards and look at the big picture. After all it’s not contagious although it is described as an epidemic. It is in epidemic proportions or widespread in industrialized countries where too much food and too little activity are pushing people with the tendency to develop type 2 diabetes, over the edge.

Evidence suggests switching to a healthier diet has a powerful influence on the workings of your cells. Often losing just ten or twenty pounds (4.5 or 9 kg) is enough, which means you don’t necessarily have to reach some ideal weight listed on a weight chart. And once you lose enough weight to lower your blood sugar, it will also mean less worry about heart disease… you will feel more energized because sugar will then be getting through to your body’s cells.

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