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• Being overweight and diabetic has gone hand in hand for Ashlee Townsend.
• She was underweight as a young child, but by the age of 8 she weighed about 140 pounds, her mother, Deena Townsend, said.
• That was when her diabetes was diagnosed.
• "I was in school," said Ashlee Townsend, 18, of Sedalia in Madison County.
• Townsend is one of about a million people in Ohio with diabetes, according to the Ohio Department of Health.
• "From 1994 to 2003, the number of people with diabetes in Ohio has almost doubled," said Jay Carey, spokesman for the Ohio Department of Health.
• In central Ohio, an estimated 184,000 people have diabetes, up 8.25 percent in the past two years, according to the Central Ohio Diabetes As- sociation.
• Townsend started off taking medication, but after about four years, switched to insulin injections.
• "Overall, we are averaging about 150 new cases a year just in our center," said Wynola Wayne, a diabetes nurse clinician at Children's.
• Townsend, like most with the disease, has Type 2 diabetes.
• Over the years, eating habits have changed for the worse.
• People are sucking down larger servings, leading to weight gain for inactive people.
• Not as common, Type 1 diabetes is primarily believed to be related to genetics and requires people to receive insulin through injections or an insulin pump.
• Some Type 2 diabetics can manage the disease through exercise and diet alone, Cataland said.
• Grimm began giving his own insulin shots when he was 10, learned to prick his finger for blood-sugar tests and, for about five years, has been using an insulin pump, which serves as sort of an artificial pancreas, to deliver insulin to his body.
• About three years after Grimm's diagnosis, his younger brother, Kyle, learned he had diabetes.

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