Mary Tyler Moore is probably best known for playing a thirty-something, career-minded and endlessly stylish TV news producer on the classic ‘70s sitcom the “Mary Tyler Moore Show.” What you probably didn’t know about the star is that while she was inspiring a generation of young working women, she was having her own behind-the-scenes struggle with type 1 diabetes after being diagnosed at the age of 33. In her new memoir, “Growing Up Again: Life, Loves, and Oh Yeah, Diabetes,” Moore, who is 72 and nearly blind because of her diabetes, reflects on a life with the illness and gives tips, advice and inspiration to millions of others sufferers.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease, meaning the body's immune system turns inexplicably against its own insulin-producing cells, destroying them as if they were foreign invaders. Since people with type 1 diabetes can't produce their own insulin, they must put insulin into the blood stream through injections or an insulin pump. This type of diabetes is associated with a number of complications, including heart disease, kidney disease and blindness. Because type 1 diabetes usually develops in children, it’s often called juvenile diabetes, but adults, like Moore, can develop the condition as well.
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