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Old 03-20-2016, 05:29 PM
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There are a number of genetic risk factors for Type 2 diabetes as well as environmental ones (obesity, hypertension, smoking, inadequate exercise, etc).

Maybe your parents were lucky as far as the genetic risk factors are concerned and the environmental ones did not apply to them.
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