MLB.com: [Dmitri] Young frustrated by misconceptions

A few days after being placed on the disabled list, Nationals first baseman Dmitri Young said he is upset that people in the media are insensitive about the way he looks in a baseball uniform. He doesn’t like that fact people are pointing out that he is out of shape and needs to lose weight.
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“I don’t necessarily need to lose the weight. That’s what everybody is stressing on,” Young said. “Why does that have to be the key point of diabetes? Health is the issue, and insulin is a big part of it. You have to find the right mixture. Everybody is stressing on the weight, weight, weight. And that is what is wrong with the world today. Everybody has to be a beanpole. If everybody looked like that, it would be a weird-looking place. Everybody would look the same.

“I feel people don’t know the effects that insulin has. If I don’t take the insulin, I will die. I will be in a worst position without it. We are trying to figure it out. I’m going to the doctor. We are on a program right now to see what we can do about it. It’s a trial-and-error thing in order to figure out what’s right. This is about life, not about baseball.”