A fair amount of attention has been paid to obesity rates and subsequent Type 2 diabetes, both of which have spiked in recent years, but a lesser known problem is that a sizable portion of this population is insulin resistant and requires much higher doses of insulin to control their blood glucose.

If someone would have asked me three years ago what Necrotizing enterocolitis (or NEC for short) meant, then my response would probably be a blank stare, followed by I'll have to get back to you on that. That's often the reply I give to people when I'm not sure of an answer. But if someone were to ask me today what NEC means, the answer would probably be a bit different. I think the first thing I'd say is, "Well how much time do you have for me to answer that question honestly?" For simplicity's sake, we can just say...