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Eating a cake a day, will give you the same risks to get diabetes for example as a can of coke a day as everybody say?

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Not!: Diabetes is genetically predetermined. Environmental factors such as obesity, aging, medication, low vitamin d, and concurrent illnesses can turn on the genes which can promote diabetes.

Answered 9/2/2013

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A member asked:

Eating a cake a day, will give you the same risks to get diabetes for example as a can of coke a day as everybody say?

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Dr. Jeffrey Unger answered

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