Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
This year, Vernon Torres sent an audition video to Fort Wayne's Smallest Winner weight-loss contest. He looked straight into the camera and said he was a local police officer and had been injecting drugs for more than a decade.
The statement was attention-grabbing to be sure. But it also was true - Torres had been giving himself insulin shots for more than 12 years because he had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, in which sugar builds up in the blood to unhealthy levels because the body's ability to make or use insulin is impaired.
Three weeks ago, Torres, 56, was at Spiece Fitness at 6:30 a.m. with his Smallest Winner teammates, doing laps of the gym, running up and down steps and crab-walking across the floor. And that was just the warm-up.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/30/3069564/weight-loss-contestant-sheds-pounds.html
The statement was attention-grabbing to be sure. But it also was true - Torres had been giving himself insulin shots for more than 12 years because he had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, in which sugar builds up in the blood to unhealthy levels because the body's ability to make or use insulin is impaired.
Three weeks ago, Torres, 56, was at Spiece Fitness at 6:30 a.m. with his Smallest Winner teammates, doing laps of the gym, running up and down steps and crab-walking across the floor. And that was just the warm-up.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/07/30/3069564/weight-loss-contestant-sheds-pounds.html