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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
At 11 years old, Taunton's Noah Brokmeier continues to tackle the misconceptions surrounding diabetes while spreading awareness about the metabolic disease in hope for a cure.
"The more people who know about diabetes, the sooner we can find a cure for it," said the bespectacled boy, sitting in front of his laptop. "What we are doing now is extending diabetes awareness to people that don't have it, families that don't know anything about diabetes."
Brokmeier is the face behind The Diabetes Dude, a diabetes awareness project that is based online at http://www.thediabetesdude.com, with an exotic blue bird as its mascot. As part of the effort, Brokmeier has organized a group of about 50 "ambassadors," or correspondents, who help correct misconceptions about diabetes, spread information about the differences between the types of diabetes and talk about treatment for diabetes.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma..._11_year_old_tackles_diabetes_misconceptions/
"The more people who know about diabetes, the sooner we can find a cure for it," said the bespectacled boy, sitting in front of his laptop. "What we are doing now is extending diabetes awareness to people that don't have it, families that don't know anything about diabetes."
Brokmeier is the face behind The Diabetes Dude, a diabetes awareness project that is based online at http://www.thediabetesdude.com, with an exotic blue bird as its mascot. As part of the effort, Brokmeier has organized a group of about 50 "ambassadors," or correspondents, who help correct misconceptions about diabetes, spread information about the differences between the types of diabetes and talk about treatment for diabetes.
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma..._11_year_old_tackles_diabetes_misconceptions/