I've made some posts on this topic about the net, and been taken to task over them by some. In a nutshell, my answer to this question is: No. So I thought I would post a little treatise here for future reference.
I think it is important to define what we mean by Type II Diabetes, aka NIDDM (non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus). A T2 diabetic differs dramatically from a T1 diabetic in many ways, however the correlation with obesity aside, the two conditions lead to much the same metabolic derangement: high triglycerides, NEFA and LDL, hyperglycemia, CVD risk, etc. Much of the focus in diabetes is profoundly glucocentric, moreso in avid low carb circles. Thus in a word association game if I say diabetes, most would respond with hyperglycemia, or blood sugar problems or something like that. Essentially diabetes = hyperglycemia.
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