Culture
In San Francisco, the Fight Against Diabetes Gets Personal
A local doctor tries to raise awareness about the social causes of Type 2 diabetes, in his community and others.
At high school assemblies, the team from the Bigger Picture Campaign, a diabetes-prevention program run out of San Francisco, always begin their presentation with a video called "Sole Mate."
It starts out as a loving ode to feet, with images of dancing baby feet, basketball-playing feet, skateboarding feet flashing across the screen as a young poet recites in the background: "This foot, that has tasted the grass of Humboldt between my toes and the beaches of Hawaii, you were a friend to lean on. And now I'll never be able to stand on my own two feet again."