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TUESDAY, MAY 21, 2002

"Diabetes on reservations is so common that if you lived there, you would be more likely to become diabetic than you would be to catch the flu during flu season. Native Americans who live in North Dakota will develop Type II diabetes at a rate four to five times greater than the rest of the U.S. population, some of the websites about diabetes tell me.

So I guess I shouldn't be surprised that most of the people that I know have diabetes. Unfortunately, the incidence is changing from older people to teen-agers and even some young children. One of my aunts has had diabetes since she was 48. She will turn 79 in August. . ."

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Dorreen Yellow Bird: Diabetes teaches us important life lessons (The Grand Forks Herald 5/21)