Even as recently as the 1970’s and 1980’s, scientists couldn’t say with any degrees of certainty that they knew what the major causes of diabetes were. Diligent research and lots of funding has brought us a long way towards understanding this condition. They had a pretty good idea that genetic and ethnic factors played a role. There was also evidence that pointed to gender playing a role. Beyond that, there was plenty of hypotheses but also plenty of controversy and opinion. We now understand that environmental factors are one of the major causes of diabetes. The good thing about this knowledge is that environmental factors are things you sometimes have control over, thus being able to take preventative measures to do something about one of the major causes of diabetes.
What Do We Now Know about the Major Causes of Diabetes?
- Unfortunately, age is one of the major
