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		TFortunato on April 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple has biomedical engineers developing sensors ... OK, so are you suggesting that a vegan diet or otherwise avoiding animal proteins will somehow prevent and/or cure juvenile diabetes then... I give up, and suggest you learn to Google something more than just source to try to confirm (poorly!) your own biases about what diabetes is or isn't.

richie5um on April 16, 2017 [–]

As a Type1, I wish they'd give them different names - diabetes is too often seen as a 'fat person disease'.

Maybe I shouldn't care, but it is upsetting to have to explain to people all the time. Even more so when they close their ears to the response.

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