I’ve continued to think about a topic from Oprah’s show last week “Diabetes–America’s Silent Killer,” that I didn’t mention in my last post: the ways in which type 2 diabetes can insinuate itself into the culture of an ethnic or racial group. We learn how to eat as children. If our parents eat unhealthily, and later develop type 2 diabetes because of it, chances are that we will also become diabetic if we continue to eat our childhood favorites. One of Oprah’s guests mentioned that many people who have parents...