Not everyone who is obese develops diabetes.  The question is why?  The answer probably can be found in the levels of silent inflammation and where that inflammation is located.  If the silent inflammation is located in your muscle cells, the result is insulin resistance.  Left untreated, this insulin resistance can easily develop into type 2 diabetes within 8-10 years.  Once you develop type 2 diabetes, you might as well start taking years of potential life off your calendar.  However, it has been shown that insulin resistance, which is the foundation of type 2 diabetes, can be reversed in a matter of days by the anti-inflammatory Zone Diet.  But to treat type 2 diabetes effectively you have to use that anti-inflammatory diet on a lifetime basis.