M.D. According to Charles Darwin, people who inherit genes that make them sick give birth to children who die early and the gene disappears, but the gene for diabetes has been with us for millions of years and diabetes will plague the human race forever. In times of plenty, a diabetic eats too much and dies from heart attacks, strokes, cancers, kidney failure and blockage of arteries. On the other hand, when there is not enough food to go around, diabetics live the longest because they who store fat best and burn the fewest calories. For example, the Pima Indians who live in the deserts of Arizona and New Medico used to be thin warriors able to survive on 700 calories a day, compared to the average European who can't make it on twice that level. When Pimas are fed the fattening Western diet, they are almost all obese and more than 70 percent become diabetic.
Eating raises body temperature to burn more calories.
People who develop late-onset diabetes produce the least insulin that produces the least heat to convert the most calories into fat. So prevention of diabetes, and obesity in diabetes, is too keep blood levels of insulin low by preventing blood sugar levels from rising too high after meals. Avoid bakery products, pastas, sugar added foods, eat root vegetables and fruits only with meals and take drugs to lower insulin such as Glucophage, Actose and Avandia. S Camastra, E Bonora, S DelPrato, K Rett, M Weck, E Ferrannini. Effect of obesity and insulin resistance on resting and glucose-induced thermogenesis in man.