RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC
When I was 14 years old, my father got diagnosed with diabetes. He used to shake his head and wonder how that could have happened to him. I did a little research on the topic and found out that no one really knows what causes diabetes, but poor eating habits and a lack of exercise definitely contribute. This obviously explains my father. He’s gone through diet plan after diet plan and they all fail because he lacks the discipline to stick to any of them. Every night when he can’t sleep, he digs into a whole block of ice cream and finishes it. His idea of exercise is to climb up the front steps to walk into the house. Other than that, he’s so lazy that he drives his car to throw something in the mailbox that’s just down the street. Finally, he used to drink excessively. I once asked him what his limit was and he said 30 beers. He drank so much he used to chase me around the house until he cornered me and started lecturing me that I need to join the football team so I could get a college scholarship. So in the end, him getting diabetes wasn’t much of a shock to me.