By Eric Devine

Amidst a crowded room you'll find me engaged in conversation, but more often than not, it's with myself. Typically it sounds like this:

By Eric Devine

When I was 12 years old I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. A week after my diagnosis I went to a middle school dance. There was a limbo contest, and either out of sympathy for me, or by virtue of my dexterous skills, I won a giant bag of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups.

Colleen Laing is honest about the emotions she experiences as she works to maintain a healthy weight. Because of her many demands from family, work, and community activities, you might be able to identify with her.

Just like your odds of contracting diabetes are influenced by genes, your weight is largely determined by the same code.

In an article distributed by the Chicago Tribune via InsideBayArea.com weight loss expert Barbara Hansen's expresses her resolute opinion that obesity is chiefly genetic.  "It has a small behavioral component, but most of obesity is physiological," Hansen said. "It is very, very hard to fix with behavioral methods."

Intimacy is a beautiful and powerful part of life. Diabetes often cheats its victims out of the tenderness and passion.

Since the scientific identified a third cause of type 2 diabetes, we have to ask the question, how do we battle it?  It may be too early for answers, but it is a great time to ask . 

Diabetes is a problem that arises when one or both of the following conditions occur:

1. A person's body cannot make enough insulin.
2. A person's body is not able to use the insulin it produces to process blood sugar