I. Family friend: Would you like some Sprite? Me, age 10: No, thank you. That’s got sugar in it. Family friend: Oh. Well, how about just a little? Me, age 10: No, thank you. I can’t have any. Family friend: How about if I mix it with water? Me, age 10, disgusted, to mother, hours [...]
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But I Won’t Be Weeping Long
A normal blood sugar, for your average type I diabetic [no caps because it's a disease, unworthy of the recognition], ranges between 75 and 140, roughly, or at least it used to. They changed the rules, you see, a couple of years back, after a very famous study in which it was found that — [...]
