Genetics and Lifestyle Choices Play a Role Type 2 diabetes has several causes: genetics and lifestyle are the most important ones. A combination of these factors can cause insulin resistance, when your body doesn't use insulin as well as it should. Insulin resistance is the most common cause of type 2 diabetes. Genetics Play a Role in Type 2 Diabetes Type 2 diabetes can be hereditary. That doesn't mean that if your mother or father has (or had) type 2 diabetes, you're guaranteed to develop it; instead, it means that you have a greater chance of developing type 2. Researchers know that you can inherit a risk for type 2 diabetes, but it's difficult to pinpoint which genes carry the risk. The medical community is hard at work trying to figure out the certain genetic mutations that lead to a risk of type 2. Lifestyle Is Very Important, Too Genes do play a role in type 2 diabetes, but lifestyle choices are also important. You can, for example, have a genetic mutation that may make you susceptible to type 2, but if you take good care of your body, you may not develop diabetes.
"The companies issue policies that give them plausible deniability. I saw no indication while I was in DRC that any of the companies were acting on the ground. The Amnesty article cited in the complaint from 2016 did interview most of the companies and got that same response – we have policies…" In a statement, Roger-Claude Liwanga, a fellow on Human Trafficking and Forced Labor with the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and adjunct professor at Emory Law who is assisting the legal challenge, said: "This is the beginning of the end of impunity for those who have been economically benefiting from child labor in the DRC's mining industry. DRC children also have an inherent and inalienable right to be protected from economic exploitation. " Siddharth Kara, adjunct lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and author of Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective, is also assisting with the lawsuit. It was Kara's field work and research over the course of several years that made the complaint possible.