Diabetes risk factors for type 2 diabetes are discussed because type 1 diabetes has origins or predispositions that can not be predicted or prevented.
Dietary imbalance, obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are all triggers on a predisposed terrain, since in more than half of cases, Type 2 diabetes occurs in families with a history of the disease. Thus, Type 2 diabetes can be considered a hereditary as well as an environmental disease. But environmental changes can explain the current epidemic more deeply.