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Summary: The Myths About Type 2 Diabetes   In today’s session, we’re going to learn about the 5 myths regarding Type 2 Diabetes. The goal of this session is to help you wake up to a new day and give you hope from this disease. Myth #1: Diabetes is genetic. We’ve been taught that our parents can genetically pass on to their children the type 2 diabetes—well that isn’t quite so. The genetic code, which is your DNA, is like the instruction book about how your body is going to express itself with certain diseases. In 1980, a study by the World Health Organization found that there were 108 million people in the world with type 2 diabetes. 34 years later in 2014, they did another study. This time, they found that there was  an increase to 422 million who now had type 2 diabetes. The genetic code for humans only changes 0.2% in 20,000 years. Going from 108 million to 422 million in less than 34 years is a lot more than a 0.2% change in 20,000 years. The bottom line is that a lot of us have the type 2 diabetes gene i