Science

As prominent as Type 2 (Insulin Resistant Diabetes) can be, its always been "cured" with a healthy diet and exercise. Type 1 (Insulin Dependent Diabetes) is another ball game altogether due to the autoimmune components. Being similarly named yet soo different leads to a lot of misunderstandings with Diabetes. There's even kind of a Type 3 (Gestational Diabetes) where a woman is pregnant and becomes diabetic. This rarely leads to a permanent diagnosis after giving birth but does happen. Even more confusing, I knew a triathlete who was Type 2 yet it would be hard for him to do much better from a diet and exercise standpoint. Maybe a low calorie diet would have helped as he had massive feast while training.