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Originally Posted by mollyL
The only type of diabetes that is truly hereditary is type one, the type that comes on in childhood. Adult-onset diabetes, which it sounds that your father has, can be mitigated by starting now to to eat healthily, get steady exercise, and not drinking to excess.
You can take steps now to try to prevent diabetes, so years from now it will not be a problem for you.
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Agreed. I don't know about all the specifics of it being hereditary because I've been told that some of the traits that can make diabetes more likely 'are' hereditary, even if the disease itself isn't. Adult diabetes like that can definitely be controlled, though.