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Why would it be obvious? For that matter, since I'm out of the loop, what's the mechanism for losing fat to improve insulin control?

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Simply put fat worsens insulin resistance. The mechanism is complex, basically fat causes inflammation that causes cells to not respond appropriately to insulin. This leads to elevated blood glucose and all the effects of diabetes. Remove the fat, decrease inflammation, improve insulin resistance.

I thought this was common knowledge. Type 2 diabetes is 100% reversible through diet.

Early Type 2 is generally reversible through diet, but untreated you can suffer irreversible harm.

This is correct.

Further, I don't know what it has to do with race - all humans respond to low calorie diets in the same way. There is the case of lactic intolerance due to loss of a particular gene. I'm not aware of any similar gene being involved in insulin intolerance.

Yes, I should have put it that way. Thanks.

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