Craig Stubing: the art of managing type 1 diabetes

“I kind of missed my whole diagnosis”, Craig Stubing explains. “It is like no one actually diagnosed me, but it's a thing I just have.” Stubing has type 1 diabetes. When he was 13 years old, he remembers his appetite was suddenly off the scale—“I distinctly remember eating my very first triple cheeseburger”—and he was permanently thirsty. A keen ice hockey player, he compensated by “chugging down Cokes and Gatorades every 10 minutes”. Then his...