war on diabetes

The New York Times is running a series of articles on Diabetes in New York.   Yesterday's article opens:

Begin on the sixth floor, third room from the end, swathed in fluorescence: a 60-year-old woman was having two toes sawed off.

They should totally put that advisory on Twinkie packaging.

Today's article begins:

Santos Alicea tottered haltingly over to the art shop in East Harlem, his legs screaming.

It looks like the Times is taking media activism to a new, un-subtle level.