Type 2 diabetes mellitus is more commonly known as diabetes, or adult onset diabetes. It is believed that many of the cases are preventable, but if you don’t know the common causes of diabetes, you won’t even have a chance at trying to prevent it.

Knowing the symptoms is important if you are at risk, but perhaps the first step would be to understand the most common causes of diabetes. Believe it or not, it’s not that much of a mystery what the biggest risk factors are, yet millions of Americans don’t know these common causes of diabetes and worse yet, many know them but do nothing to try to avoid them. It seems that much of the population lives in a state of self-denial about their own bad habits, thinking the risk must lie with somebody else. Don’t be one of these people. You do have a chance …