[holymoly]

FYI

[Born Conservative]

For years, her mother would wake up in the middle of the night to test Martha's blood sugar and administer insulin.

I've never heard of anyone waking up in the middle of the night to get insulin.

[Marko413]

This is freaky. I just talked with my mother last night who is a Type 1 and she was talking about how lately she has been consistently having to increase her dosage. She is in her mid-60s so she would be a candidate for Type 2. It was really scaring her because for the last couple weeks she has been testing over 300 each morning.

Great post. This is really interesting to know.

[Panzerlied]

Interesting.
In Type I, little or no insulin production.
In Type II, deficient cell receptors for insulin.
With both, a double "whammy" that should be devilishly difficult to treat (higher and/or more frequent doses of insulin?).

To what extent(i.e., hard data) has obesity been shown to be "causal" to Type II diabetes as opposed to "coincidental"?

Just some random thoughts.

[aimhigh]

The article doesn't surprise me. We feed our kids cereal that is 50% sugar.