MacMadame
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There seems to be some confusion in this thread about diabetes. There are two types. Type 1 is also known as Juvenile Diabetes. It's where your body doesn't make insulin and you have to give it insulin from outside sources. I don't know what the state of treatment was in those days, but I would expect it wasn't good and most of those kids died quite young.It seems as though they were all diagnosed as adults?
Type II diabetes is also know as "Adult Onset Diabetes". (Though these days more and more kids are being diagnosed with it.) It's where your insulin levels whack out in response to what you eat. Since it's something you develop over time (it seems to develop in people with the genetic tendency in response to long-term eating habits), most people are diagnosed as an adult. (And are often also overweight to obese.) Type II can be controlled with diet a large portion of the time, especially if caught early and is treated these days with drugs like metformin, not with insulin.