I found the link to this news at TuDiabetes.com:

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have discovered that inflammation provoked by immune cells called macrophages leads to insulin resistance and Type 2 diabetes. Their discovery may pave the way to novel drug development to fight the epidemic of Type 2 diabetes associated with obesity, the most prevalent metabolic disease worldwide. (Read more…)

I learnt that inflammation may worsen Diabetes, but now it’s been identified as a cause. The article states that obesity may be disassociated with Diabetes directly, but I sure hope more people take the necessary steps, if they are overweight (like me), to improve this aspect of their lives and avoid other complications such as heart disease.