Can you get diabetes?

if you sit around the house not doing much, [like being on the computer and watching tv and stuff], and if you eat junk food and stuff but still plenty of healthy stuff, but you do practically no physical stuff, is it possible to get diabetes?

In Type 1 diabetes the cells in the pancreas that make insulin are destroyed from an autoimmune disease, causing your pancreas not able to produce insulin.
No one really knows for sure what its caused by.. but there are some new studies that suggest it may be caused by a lack of vitamin D.



Type 2 diabetes is believed to develop when:
- the receptors on cells in the body that normally respond to the action of insulin fail to be stimulated by it - this is known as insulin resistance. In response to this more insulin may be produced, and this over-production exhausts the insulin-manufacturing cells in the pancreas
- there is an insufficient insulin available
- the insulin that is available may be abnormal and therefore doesn't work properly.

a lot has to do with your genes but having a bad diet contributes to it also.... i am the only person in my immediate family with it, but i didnt eat a ton of junk food. so go figure?! truth is, they really dont know what causes diabetes....

it depends on family history...you can also get diabetis by being too fat/overweight i dont think sitting around doinng nothing gets you diabetis cuz i do the same stuff lol