Reply #39: it can go both ways... circular causality

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if your body isnt processing insulin and glucose properly it can lead to weight gain; excess weight can cause the conditions where your body goes diabetic.

My poor hubby has insulin sensitivity -- was eating 5 candy bars a day and couldnt hold to a diet. His body was going give me candy, give me carbs.... Finally found a bariatric physician who understood his condition and gave him 2 metformin (he's not diabetic) and the metformin killed the cravings for 5 candy bars a day immediately. Got on a low carb diet and lost a bunch of weight and now is going in for bariatric surgery in 5 days -- because he's hit the limit of what he can do.

All the males on his dad's side are diabetic.