The rates of black people in Africa and the Caribbean suffering from diabetes are quite high to. I think thatmaybe more of a genetic thing but poor diet and being overweight will not help matters in some cases.

One of my uncles who suffers from diabetes is very slimand he is in good shape and has lived in Nigeria all of his life but yet he still developed diabetes. On my fathers side of the family diabetes appears to just to be really just genetic. All my uncles and aunts including my father himself deals with diabetes and my grandfather suffered from it to.

My father got quite ill a few years ago with diabetes when he first developed type 2 diabetes and the dietician at the hospital told us that his diet and weight had no bearing on him developing diabetes as it would have happened regardless.
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