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Yes, your child with type 1 can eat candy! You heard it right.  For parents and kids with type 1 diabetes, Halloween can be a scary time (no pun intended). Not because of the costumes or haunted houses, but because it could be a day of high blood sugars and unexpected blood sugar control. As a certified diabetes educator who works with children and a person with type 1 myself, I think it’s important for kids to feel “normal” on this day.  That being said, “Normal” does not me

Being overweight is the most important risk factor to prevent the development of type 2 diabetes in children and adolescents. It is estimated that 80% of children with type 2 diabetes are overweight. Twenty years ago type 2 diabetes in children was unknown, we only saw diabetes in adults. Now unfortunately, the incidence of diabetes in children is almost 4000 cases a day. The increase in new cases of diabetes parallels the obesity epidemic in children. Hispanic children are m