Yes indeed, thanks for posting that! Everyone in my family seems to get diabetes eventually, regardless of their weight. Hopefully my low-carbing will help prevent it.

Wow, learn somthing new every day. Thanks for posting that.

Then we are getting farther away from both.

indeed, another reason added to other reasons

All the men in my family develop diabetes by the time they're 45.

I want to avoid that -_-

All the women on my mom's side have diabetes and breast cancer and on my father's side they have heart disease and cervical cancer. Both my parents died at 50. I don't want to die that young.

nka

Thats really scary....I hope things go much much better for you.

Funny, of all the Alzheimer's residents I care for, only a scant few have been diabetic. Personally, they may be correlated, but I doubt they are actually linked.

I hope it does, too. My parents had horrible eating habits that I am just learning are a death sentence. You would think I would have realized that before but I guess better late than never.

In my family, no one is overweight, I am the ONLY one who is obese, but my health-nut Dad has cholesterol so high he is on meds, there is diabetes amoungst several relatives, and a high incidence of cancer with all the smokers in my family.

So here I am, almost 100lbs overweight, I've got low blood pressure, cholesterol of 182, great LDL/HDL & trigliceride levels, no diabetes. I attest this to the fact that I have never eaten junk food or fast food. My one and only indulgence was Starbucks Java Chip Ice Cream (I figured if I was going to eat something sweet, it HAD to be great, I cannot stomach low-fat, low-carb, low-taste ice cream). I couldn't tell you what's in a big mac or whatever.

So I know as I lose the weight I'll be even healthier!

LL