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Pequot chairman combats diabetes
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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2002 Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation Chairman Kenny Reels has become vegetarian and is on a management program to combat his diabetes, reports The New London Day. Reels has type 2 diabetes, which afflicts a large number of Native Americans. On Wednesday, he described the diet, exercise and lifestyle treatment he has started. Actress Mary Tyler Moore joined Reels at the tribe's museum for the first of the two-day diabetes conference. Moore has type 1 diabetes, which doesn't affect Native populations greatly. Get the Story:
Reels and Mary Tyler Moore share a stage and a disease (The New London Day 3/14)
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